Having seceded from the Union, Georgia’s secession convention continues as delegates draft new state documents and make plans to accept an invitation from the state of Alabama to attend a conference for all slaveholding states, slated to begin February 4th. The secession speeches, convention proceedings and ordinances of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama and now…
Less than two weeks after Mississippi’s secession from the United States of America, today marks the last entry of four years of “Slave Certificates” in the Record Book Adams County, Mississippi. Slave Certificates are required by Mississippi law, providing proof that slaves brought into Mississippi (typically from the Upper South) for the purpose of sale…
Three days after Georgia secedes from the United States, six convention delegates who had voted against secession issue a “Statement of Protest.” We, the undersigned, Delegates to the Convention of the State of Georgia, now in Session, whilst we most solemnly Protest against the action of the majority in adopting an Ordinance for the immediate…