By Alexia Fernanandez Campbell, April Simpson and Pratheek Rebala
Mother Jones Magazine
July+August 2024
Special to the New Journal and Guide
Months later, in November 1866, a federal agent issued Pompey Jackson a “first-class warrant” to buy land in Beaufort County as consolation for his now worthless title to part of William Habersham’s plantation. But Jackson wouldn’t leave Georgia, instead joining a number of freedmen who stayed in the Savannah area and found jobs as porters, housekeepers, and dockworkers.
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