They Had Names

African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia

1865 Letter to Freedmen’s Bureau

The University of Maryland’s Freedmen & Southern Society Project has put online a letter written on November 28, 1865, four freed Liberty County slaves to the Freedmen’s Bureau at Savannah. The letter describes the conditions for freed people in Liberty County at the time and is signed by:

William Golden
Toney Golden
Gabriel Andrews
Toney Axon [alt: Axson]

To read the letter, visit this link: http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/Golden.htm .