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• 1810, Unnamed, Females, Mention
  Lucy Cary's female servants were described as the best trained and always neat. Partial Transcript: "Mrs. Cary had the best trained housemaids — comely, full-blooded negro girls, always neat with heads covered with colored headkerchiefs very artistically arranged."
• 1810, Dick Cary, Male, Mention
  Dick Cary was described as a tall, fine looking man with white, long, bushy hair, and very well dressed. Partial Transcript: "He was a tall, fine looking old negro, wearing his white hair very long, that is to say very bushy. He was always well dressed and deported himself as if he considered his office in the college second only to Dr. Waddell's, and from no other would he take orders."
• 1810, Unnamed, Mention
  Lucy Cary's enslaved persons, who were often leased by the University of Georgia, were recorded to be loved and respected, and prided themselves to belong to her and her family, as recorded by Augustus Hull in the "Annals of Athens." Partial Transcript: "Her manners were formed from the best models of Virginia society — gentle, courteous, dignified, cheerful — as kind to one of her slaves as to a white person of the same age ; and the result was that her slaves not only loved and respected her but prided themselves in belonging to an old Virginia family."
• 1803, Unnamed, Mention
  Henry Hull, his family, a few enslaved persons, and some goods visited his newly purchased home, named the Hodgson House. Partial Transcript: "My earliest recollections of Athens date from the year 1803. I well remember when my father, with his family, a few servants and household goods stopped at this house — how interested I was in a flock of goats which were browsing on the opposite hillside."
• 1821-11-13, Unnamed, Mention
  Amendments were made to the University's ordinances that include the prohibition of enslaved people entering the University on the Sabbath, except with permission of the President. Partial Transcript: "The Committee to whom was referred the Report of the President of the University, Report the following Amendments to the Laws of the College. 2nd No Negro shall enter the College on the Sabbath of at any other time, except by the permission of the President. "
• 1842-04-27, Unnamed, Female, Mention
  An enslaved female became involved in a student's plot to give an item to a female at the Female Academy. Partial Transcript: "It was rumored that he had handed to a servant of Mr. Hunt's a number of obscene & lascivious plates to be exhibited to the young ladies of the Female academy - Harper said he knew to whom Gray had lent them, but was unwilling to name him, for if he did the person could only clear himself by getting into a difficulty equally bad, viz. that of having given them to a servant girl for the purpose of showing them to her young mistress."
• 1829-03-04, Unnamed, Mention
  The University created an ordinance that every student will be fined one dollar who permits an enslaved person into their room or purchases goods from an enslaved person. Partial Transcript: "Resolved that every student be fined one dollar who admits a negro into his room without permission of the Faculty:--and the further sum of one dollar for purchasing any thing from a negro in College."
• 1828-08-05, Unnamed, Mention
  The Board of Trustees specified that the faculty members should prohibit enslaved people from entering academic buildings for any reason, except by permission. Partial Transcript: "And thereafter it shall be the duty of the Faculty to prohibit all other Colored persons from entering the College Buildings for any purpose whatsoever except by special permission from one of the Body."