A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians: The period of expansion or Georgia in the process of growth, 1802-1857 (continued) ; The period of division or Georgia in the assertion of state rights, 1857-1872 ; The period of rehabilitation or Georgia's rise from the ashes of war, 1872-1916 ; Georgia miscellanies |
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One night the maiden was missed from her tent . The old chieftain commanded
his warriors to pursue the fugitive . They found her with Laceola , the son of a
hated race . In an instant , an arrow was aimed at his 611 Georgia and Georgians
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One night the maiden was missed from her tent . The old chieftain commanded
his warriors to pursue the fugitive . They found her with Laceola , the son of a
hated race . In an instant , an arrow was aimed at his 611 Georgia and Georgians
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XI THE ENCHANTED ISLAND - Many moons ago there dwelt on an island in the
great Okefinokee Swamp a race of Indians , whose women were incomparably
beautiful . Neither among the daughters of the brave Creeks , who occupied the ...
XI THE ENCHANTED ISLAND - Many moons ago there dwelt on an island in the
great Okefinokee Swamp a race of Indians , whose women were incomparably
beautiful . Neither among the daughters of the brave Creeks , who occupied the ...
Page 631
... which Brier Creek makes with the Savannah River — a number of curious
relics have been discovered from time to time of the race who here lived and
roamed the woods before the bold Genoese navigator found a new world · in the
West .
... which Brier Creek makes with the Savannah River — a number of curious
relics have been discovered from time to time of the race who here lived and
roamed the woods before the bold Genoese navigator found a new world · in the
West .
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But the Indians managed to make the Salzburgers understand that he was not of
the same race with the new comers at Ebenezer , nor with the pale face settlers at
Savannah . From the accounts given by the red men it is clearly evident that he ...
But the Indians managed to make the Salzburgers understand that he was not of
the same race with the new comers at Ebenezer , nor with the pale face settlers at
Savannah . From the accounts given by the red men it is clearly evident that he ...
Page 674
... it wrought far greater injury to the South than it did to the negro race ; that ,
while it retarded the growth of manufactures in this section , committing the South
almost exclusively to agriculture , under a most pernicious one - crop system , it
was ...
... it wrought far greater injury to the South than it did to the negro race ; that ,
while it retarded the growth of manufactures in this section , committing the South
almost exclusively to agriculture , under a most pernicious one - crop system , it
was ...
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| Title | A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians: The period of expansion or Georgia in the process of growth, 1802-1857 (continued) ; The period of division or Georgia in the assertion of state rights, 1857-1872 ; The period of rehabilitation or Georgia's rise from the ashes of war, 1872-1916 ... Volume 2 of A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians, Lucian Lamar Knight |
| Author | Lucian Lamar Knight |
| Publisher | Lewis publishing Company, 1917 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2008 |
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