Georgia, Supreme Court, Atlanta : Woods v Pearce, September 1881 [printed].

John Woods's bill alleged that in 1840 his mother, Celia Woods, a woman of colour, was emancipated in Florida and moved to Columbus, Georgia, where she accumulated a considerable estate under the guardianship of one Lee. Woods himself had been a slave until after the Civil War. In 1852 Celia Wo...

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Corporate Author:	Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) (digitiser.)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Subjects:	Court records. Freemen. Right of property. Slavery. Enslaved persons > Emancipation. Georgia > Muscogee County. Slavery and Agriculture; Freed Peoples and Free Black Settlements; The Abolition Movement
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