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The worshipers in all these humble congregations ever manifested a warm attachment to the [Church].\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1827" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "821", "Page 17" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "823" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "524" ], "OTGEvent:participant": [ "640" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/820", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1825-02-19, Solomon, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Solomon assisted Moses Waddel to visit a cotton gin in town, and haul cotton.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"[February] 19... went early with Solomon to Mr. Newton's gin- thence to Talmage's shop to get my cotton hauled.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1825-02-19" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "786", "Page 34" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "816" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "787" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "787" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/818", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1826-03-07, Solomon, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Solomon woke Moses Waddel from his sleep to inform him of actions occurring on the plantation.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"[March] 7... disturbed by Solomon in [the] night, informing me of attempts on the necessary.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1826-03-07" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "786", "Page 89" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "816" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "787" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "787" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/738", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1864, Billy Hull, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Billy assisted Henry Hull's wife with hiding valuables when the Federal army raided Athens, Georgia.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"When the Federal army was making its way through Georgia and a raid on Athens was expected, my mother got all her silver and fine cutlery together and a small keg of fine brandy which she was saving for some unknown occasion, and gave it to old Billy to hide away, none but she and Billy knew where.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1864" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/291/mode/2up Page 291" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "703" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "620" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/734", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1860, Bart, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Bart requested Henry Hull to sell him due to an argument between Bart and his father.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Bart, one of the plantation hands, came in one night on a pass, and said, \"Mas Henry, I've had a fuss with my daddy, and I can't stay on the plantation no longer wid him. I want you to sell me.\" - My father enquired into the trouble and told Bart to stay in town the next day and think better of it. The next night he still asked that he be sold. 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The negroes never complained of work. They were always cheerful when well.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "Page 285" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "620" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/720", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1860, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "At the residence of Henry Hull, four families consisting of 16 enslaved people worked at the house.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"At the home place in town there were four families, comprising sixteen negroes.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "620" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ], "OTGEvent:witness": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/716", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1860, Lewis, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Lewis, an enslaved man, was a friend of the college students and noted for his vision disability.\n\nPartial Transaction: \"For years ''Old Tub\" was the friend of the college boys and they recall him with his sightless eyes and his dilapidated beaver as one of the features of college life.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "476" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/177/mode/2up Pages 176-177" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "715" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "714" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/710", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1855, Rob Roy, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Rob Roy was described as a cross eyed, freckled man who lived to a great age according to Augustus Hull in the \"Annals of Athens.\"\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Rob was a cross eyed, freckled mulatto of no great beauty who lived to a great age — nobody knew how old he was.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1855" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/176/mode/2up Page 176" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "707" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "708" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/706", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1860, Tom Harris, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Tom Harris was a well-known enslaved man in Athens, Georgia, and mentioned to work for Colonel Hardeman and the Methodist Church.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Among some other well known negroes who have a place in the history of Athens, Tom Harris was prominent and most portly. He was Col. Hardeman's factotum and sexton of the Methodist Church, big, fat and amiable, not especially energetic but a man of fine intelligence and respected by himself and the white people as well.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/175/mode/2up Page 175" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "705" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "Colonel Hardeman" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/695", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1850, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Colonel John Billups and his sons were recorded to owned many enslaved persons on his plantation.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Col. Billups was a typical planter of the old regime. 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Gone, all gone! I well remember old Uncle ]\\Iike. the patriarch and foreman of the plantation. No hired overseer gave him orders. To his master alone was he answerable.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "675" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "673" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "620" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/672", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1850, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Enslaved persons celebrated University of Georgia's Commencement as if it were a holiday. 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It was the annual holiday of the negroes, and every darkey from ten miles away came to town that day.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1850" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "Page 170" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/670", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1860, Unnamed, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "An enslaved man reportedly set the Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia on fire after their removal was ordered. There is no supporting evidence for this claim.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"The negroes were permitted to hold their services in the old churches. When the Trustees of the College ordered their removal, the Baptist Church was destroyed by fire, it was believed, by some enraged colored brother who while believing in plenty of water did not underate the efficacy of fire.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1860" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:cause": [ "669" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/166/mode/2up Page 166" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "669" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/666", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1840, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "If an enslaved person was confined by the Town Marshals, the owner must pay $1.00 or the slave would be whipped.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"It was discretionary with the Town Marshal to whip or confine all negroes found on the streets after nine o'clock, and the owner of slaves confined must pay $1.00 to the Marshal or have the slave whipped.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1840" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:cause": [ "662" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/128/mode/2up Page 128" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "662" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ], "OTGEvent:petitionerAgainst": [ "665" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/663", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1840, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Enslaved persons were not allowed to own dogs.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Some of the strictures on negro slaves seem funny, not to say harsh, to the present generation. 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The price for an enslaved person dropped from $1200 to $200 to $300.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"The attendance of students in the University fell off, the banks stopped specie payment, expenses went up and profits went down. Cotton went down to five cents, negroes who cost $1200, were sold for from $200 to $300, and good land was offered at $2 and $3 per acre.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1837" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/124/mode/2up Page 124" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/631", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1815, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "The commissioners of Athens, Georgia imposed a 12 cent tax on enslaved persons.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"The Oconee river was the corporate line. The commissioners imposed a tax of 3 cents on $100 on property, 12 1/2 cents each on slaves, and $2 for liquor license. That surely was an ideal Athens.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1815" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/94/mode/2up Page 94" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/627", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1810, Unnamed, Females, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Lucy Cary's female servants were described as the best trained and always neat.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"Mrs. Cary had the best trained housemaids — comely, full-blooded negro girls, always neat with heads covered with colored headkerchiefs very artistically arranged.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1809" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/34/mode/2up Page 34" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "622" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/626", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1810, Dick Cary, Male, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Dick Cary was described as a tall, fine looking man with white, long, bushy hair, and very well dressed.\n\nPartial 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.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1810" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "476" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "625" ], "OTGEvent:principal": [ "624" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "622" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/623", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1810, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "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.\"\n\nPartial 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.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1810" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "525" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "619", "https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:enslaver": [ "622" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "618" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/621", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1803, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "Henry Hull, his family, a few enslaved persons, and some goods visited his newly purchased home, named the Hodgson House.\n\nPartial Transcript: \"My earliest recollections of Athens date from the year 1803. 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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.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1842-04-27" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "476" ], "OTGEvent:result": [ "557" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "556", "https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua0149_001-002?canvas=39&x=333&y=349&w=599 Entry on April 27, 1842" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "557" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "524" ], "OTGEvent:organization": [ "477" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/552", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1829-03-04, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "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.\n\nPartial 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.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1829-03-04" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "476" ], "OTGEvent:cause": [ "553" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "543", "780", "https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua0149_001-001?canvas=65&x=242&y=223&w=416 Page 124" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "553" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "551" ], "OTGEvent:organization": [ "477" ] }, { "o:resource_class": "dctype:Event", "url": "https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/488", "OTGEvent:title": [ "1828-08-05, Unnamed, Mention" ], "OTGEvent:description": [ "The Board of Trustees specified that the faculty members should prohibit enslaved people from entering academic buildings for any reason, except by permission.\n\nPartial 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.\"" ], "OTGEvent:type": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention" ], "OTGEvent:actionStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed" ], "OTGEvent:date": [ "1828-08-05" ], "OTGEvent:dateCertainty": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred" ], "OTGEvent:location": [ "476" ], "OTGEvent:cause": [ "487" ], "OTGEvent:source": [ "472", "https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=93&x=3769&y=2187&w=9285 Page 186" ], "OTGEvent:relatedEvent": [ "487" ], "OTGEvent:freedomStatus": [ "https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved" ], "OTGEvent:author": [ "475" ], "OTGEvent:organization": [ "466" ] } ]