Monthly Archives: January 2025

Needles & Threads: Piecing Together African American Families

The Georgia Heritage Room is doing something a little different for the winter programming quarter. In February and March we’re offering three Lunch & Learn programs and invite you to bring a bag lunch to the third floor computer lab … Continue reading

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Maria Bryan Harford and Her Five Slaves

  In a letter written to her sister Julia Bryan Cumming, on the night of her nineteenth birthday, Maria Bryan, a planter’s daughter born on New Year’s Day in 1808 at Mt. Zion, Georgia, anticipated the coming year and wondered, … Continue reading

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