Resource class Url Title Description Event Type Action Status Date Date Certainty Location Cause Outcome Source Related Event Primary Participant Freedom Status Enslaver Author Additional Participant Witness Organization Petitioner dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/947 1836-06-16, Dinah, Female, Mention Seven enslaved people, including Dinah, were mentioned in the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property. Partial Transcript: " It is agreed that the value of the lands, water privileges, mills, factory buildings, as they stood on the first day of January last together with the Smith's tools, wagon + team, and the stock of wool, also seven negroes viz. Ezekiel, a man, Dinah, his wife with their two children, Bob, Cuffee + Charles." Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1836-06-16 525 825 946 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 828 826 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/889 1832-02-28, Unnamed, Mention All people who are employed by the University, including those who are enslaved, are exempted for military duty and services by law. Partial Transcript: "By the same law, the President, Professors, Tutors, and all officers and servants of the University, are exempted from military duty and 'from all such like duties and services.'" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1832-02-28 525 743 | Issue February 28, 1832; Page 3 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 477 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/833 1849-07-28, Unnamed, Mention Enslaved persons are mentioned in Article 13 of the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property of the company itself. Partial Transcript: " Article 13: All the property, real estate, negroes, machinery, notes, bonds, accounts, books, manufactural govels, and everything that belonged to the co-partners known as Athens Manufacturing Company hereby transferred to and and declared to belong to the Athens Manufacturing Company incorporated under the Act of 1847." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1849-07-28 525 825 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 826 524 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/831 1836-06-16, Bob, Male, Mention Seven enslaved people, including Bob Cuffer, were mentioned in the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property. Partial Transcript: " It is agreed that the value of the lands, water privileges, mills, factory buildings, as they stood on the first day of January last together with the Smith's tools, wagon + team, and the stock of wool, also seven negroes viz. Ezekiel, a man, Dinah, his wife with their two children, Bob, Cuffee + Charles." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1836-06-16 525 825 | Page 9 830 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 828 826 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/827 1836-06-16, Ezekiel, Male, Mention Seven enslaved people, including Ezekiel, were mentioned in the Athens Manufacturing Company minutes as property. Partial Transcript: " It is agreed that the value of the lands, water privileges, mills, factory buildings, as they stood on the first day of January last together with the Smith's tools, wagon + team, and the stock of wool, also seven negroes viz. Ezekiel, a man, Dinah, his wife with their two children, Bob, Cuffee + Charles." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1836-06-16 525 825 | Page 9 829 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 828 826 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/824 1831, Unnamed, Mention The congregation of Union Church which was composed of enslaved persons had a positive relationship with Alonzo Church who dedicated the church, Partial Transcript: "The Union Church, a colored congregation four miles above Athens, was dedicated by [Alonzo Church]. The worshipers in all these humble congregations ever manifested a warm attachment to the [Church]." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1827 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 821 | Page 17 823 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 640 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/820 1825-02-19, Solomon, Male, Mention Solomon assisted Moses Waddel to visit a cotton gin in town, and haul cotton. Partial Transcript: "[February] 19... went early with Solomon to Mr. Newton's gin- thence to Talmage's shop to get my cotton hauled." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1825-02-19 525 786 | Page 34 816 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/818 1826-03-07, Solomon, Male, Mention Solomon woke Moses Waddel from his sleep to inform him of actions occurring on the plantation. Partial Transcript: "[March] 7... disturbed by Solomon in [the] night, informing me of attempts on the necessary." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1826-03-07 525 786 | Page 89 816 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 787 787 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/738 1864, Billy Hull, Male, Mention Billy assisted Henry Hull's wife with hiding valuables when the Federal army raided Athens, Georgia. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1864 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/291/mode/2up Page 291 703 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/734 1860, Bart, Male, Mention Bart requested Henry Hull to sell him due to an argument between Bart and his father. Partial 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. My father told him to go and find a new master." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 733 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/286/mode/2up Page 286 733 676 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/731 1860, Jim Wood, Male, Mention Jim Wood, an enslaved man owned by Henry Hull, was accused of being guilty of a misdemeanor. Partial Transcript: "'Jim Wood had been guilty of some misdemeanor and had the option of being whipped by the overseer or the town marshal. It was considered a disgrace by a self-respecting negro to be whipped by the overseer" https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 732 619 | Page 285 730 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/729 1860, Unnamed, Mention The enslaved people at Henry Hull's plantation were described to work from sun up to sun down and never complaining of work. Partial Transcript: "The hours for work were from "sun up' to "sun down" with an hour for dinner. The negroes never complained of work. They were always cheerful when well." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | Page 285 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/720 1860, Unnamed, Mention At the residence of Henry Hull, four families consisting of 16 enslaved people worked at the house. Partial Transcript: "At the home place in town there were four families, comprising sixteen negroes." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/283/mode/2up Page 283 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/716 1860, Lewis, Male, Mention Lewis, an enslaved man, was a friend of the college students and noted for his vision disability. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 476 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/177/mode/2up Pages 176-177 715 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 714 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/710 1855, Rob Roy, Male, Mention 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." Partial Transcript: "Rob was a cross eyed, freckled mulatto of no great beauty who lived to a great age — nobody knew how old he was." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1855 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/176/mode/2up Page 176 707 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 708 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/706 1860, Tom Harris, Male, Mention Tom Harris was a well-known enslaved man in Athens, Georgia, and mentioned to work for Colonel Hardeman and the Methodist Church. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/175/mode/2up Page 175 705 Colonel Hardeman 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/695 1850, Unnamed, Mention Colonel John Billups and his sons were recorded to owned many enslaved persons on his plantation. Partial Transcript: "Col. Billups was a typical planter of the old regime. He owned a large and fertile plantation and many negroes, made lots of money, spent what he wanted and saved some... he lived in affluence; his boys had horses and negroes, his daughters all they desired." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1850 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/195/mode/2up Page 195 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 687 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/674 1860, Mike, Male, Mention Mike, an enslaved man owned by Henry Hull, as the foreman of Hull's plantation. Partial Transcript: "And where are the old time negroes? 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/172/mode/2up Page 172 675 673 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/672 1850, Unnamed, Mention Enslaved persons celebrated University of Georgia's Commencement as if it were a holiday. They attended the Commencement throughout the years as it was seen as a statewide annual gathering. Partial Transcript: "Standing in windows, on the steps of the stage, on boxes outside, they took up every inch of space. Broad Street from the hotel down, was a solid mass of human beings. It was the annual holiday of the negroes, and every darkey from ten miles away came to town that day." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1850 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | Page 170 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/670 1860, Unnamed, Male, Mention 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. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/548 Potential 1860 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 525 669 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/166/mode/2up Page 166 669 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/666 1840, Unnamed, Mention If an enslaved person was confined by the Town Marshals, the owner must pay $1.00 or the slave would be whipped. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1840 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 662 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/128/mode/2up Page 128 662 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 665 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/663 1840, Unnamed, Mention Enslaved persons were not allowed to own dogs. Partial Transcript: "Some of the strictures on negro slaves seem funny, not to say harsh, to the present generation. For instance, no negro was allowed to own a dog." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1840 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/128/mode/2up Page 128 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/661 1840, Unnamed, Mention The old town hall's bell warned enslaved persons of the curfew at 9 o'clock every night. Partial Transcript: "Its bell, which now calls the children of the city schools to their daily tasks, rang every night at 9 o'clock to warn the negro of the curfew hour, and clanged the alarm of fire to rouse the citizens to their safety." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1840 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 662 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/128/mode/2up Page 128 662 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/633 1837, Unnamed, Mention During the financial panic of 1837, expenses went up and profits went down, and it affected Athens, Georgia greatly. The price for an enslaved person dropped from $1200 to $200 to $300. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1837 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/124/mode/2up Page 124 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/631 1815, Unnamed, Mention The commissioners of Athens, Georgia imposed a 12 cent tax on enslaved persons. Partial 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1815 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/94/mode/2up Page 94 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/627 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1809 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/34/mode/2up Page 34 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 622 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/626 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1810 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 476 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33 625 624 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 622 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/623 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1810 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/552 Questionable 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/33/mode/2up Page 33 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 622 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/621 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." Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1803 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/550 Approximate 525 619 | https://archive.org/details/annalsofathens00hull/page/4/mode/2up Pages 3-4 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 620 618 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/586 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. " https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1821-11-13 476 582 | Page 147 | 781 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 583 585 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/558 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1842-04-27 476 557 556 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua0149_001-002?canvas=39&x=333&y=349&w=599 Entry on April 27, 1842 557 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 524 477 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/552 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1829-03-04 476 553 543 | 780 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua0149_001-001?canvas=65&x=242&y=223&w=416 Page 124 553 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 551 477 dctype:Event https://onthesegroundsuga.digilabuga.org/s/otg/item/488 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." https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/506 Mention https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/546 Completed 1828-08-05 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/551 Inferred 476 487 472 | https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_ua02-042_006-002?canvas=93&x=3769&y=2187&w=9285 Page 186 487 https://www.onthesegrounds.org/api/items/553 Enslaved 475 466