The other Southern heritage (GA)
On Georgia's Ossabaw Island, an effort to preserve slaves' tabby quarters
Posted: 12:00 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015
By Rosalind Bentley
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
... The names of the 18th and 19th century plantation owners endure ... For the slaves who worked the land, the written record is as thin as a ledger entry ... Only a handful of slave dwellings still stand in Georgia. The three tabby cabins at Ossabaw are among the most remote and rarely seen. Named for the mixture of burnt, crushed oyster shells, lime, sand and water that form their walls, each two-room cabin is about the size of a suburban, three-car garage ...
Georgia was supposed to be slave-free when the colony was established in 1733. But with South Carolina’s profits soaring from rice and indigo — a plant cultivated by enslaved Africans from seed to harvest to dye — chattel slavery became legal in Georgia 18 years later ...
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/on-ossabaw-echoes-of-a-slave-past-in-the-tabby-cab/npBmM/
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