Slavery -- America -- History

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: Records from Camden County (Ga.) departments including, courts (Superior, Inferior, Ordinary, Probate, Justice, and City Courts), Tax assessor, Sheriff, Education, and Elections. Types of records in this collection include, tax digests (improved and wild), civil and criminal records, court minutes, interrogatories, judgments, dockets, deed indexes (including transactions involving slavery), land grants, plat drawings, and property indentures, estates (wills, guardianships,...

Abstract

Collection contains tax related documents, deeds of sale for enslaved Africans and land, a small measurement scale, and a Dr’s receipt

Scope and Contents This volume contains the notices (with land descriptions) of Posted Land in Camden County, Ga. Posted land was considered off-limits for hunting, fishing, and trapping without seeking direct permission from the land owner.When this record was created, Georgia State law required land owners who refused to allow hunting, fishing, and or trapping on their lands were to post notices along the perimiter of their lands. Land owners were also required to register their land by...