NY Times Travel on Jekyll Island: Slavery, Reconstruction and Resitance

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The NY Times on seeing Black history sites in Georgia's Sea Islands.

NY Times Visits Jekyll Island's Slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow Sites of Black Resistance - The Reconstruction Era

The New York Times has a Juneteenth Weekend trip to Jekyll Island and the Golden Isles in Georgia focused on its history of slavery, Reconstruction,...

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Here is the story of the slaves capturing a ship and running ashore and mass suicide...

Igbo Landing - Wikipedia

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Here a side story the Federal Reserve was given birth there.... On Jekyll island...

How a secret meeting on Jekyll Island led to the Fed - Marketplace

Author Lowenstein explains the 'patriotic conspiracy' behind the central bank.

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Even the Fed's admit to it... Their site...

The Meeting at Jekyll Island

Explore the Federal Reserve's history

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Wanderer (slave ship) - Wikipedia

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In his ship's log, Corrie noted arriving at Bengula (probably Benguela in present-day Angola) on October 4, 1858. Wanderer took on 487 slaves between the Congo and Benguela, which is located forty miles south of the Congo river.[11] After a six-week return voyage across the Atlantic, Wanderer arrived at Jekyll Island, Georgia, around sunset on November 28, 1858. The tally sheets and passenger records showed that 409 slaves survived the passage. They were landed at Jekyll Island, which was owned by John and Henry DuBignon, Jr., who conspired with Lamar.[12] These figures present a slightly higher mortality rate than the estimated average of 12 percent during the illegal trading era.[13] Hoping to evade arrest, Lamar had the slaves shipped to markets in Savannah and Augusta, Georgia; South Carolina and Florida.[9]

As the federal government investigated, news of the slave ship raised outrage in the North. Southerners pressed Congress to reopen the Atlantic trade. The federal government tried Lamar and his conspirators three times for piracy, but was unable to get a conviction. It failed to convince a jury of a connection between Lamar and the ship.[9