The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and lynched. Some of that history took place in Columbus, Georgia. According to historian, Johnnie Warner who ...

In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United ... The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier ...

In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as those who were free -- could never become citizens of the ...