Last year, Scalawag published a biography of Abram Colby (1820-1872), one of Georgia's first Black legislators, whose story had been erased in the community he once served. This April, that same community erected a permanent marker honoring him outside of the county courthouse.
Blackness
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The Black Census Project
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Into the Thicket
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Liberation Lineages
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