Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-274) and index.
Contents:
Natives, Europeans, and the Founding of Georgia : Pre-Columbian Georgia -- Royal Colony and Revolution : Georgia Becomes a Royal Colony -- Land, Lotteries, and Indian Removal : Land Grants and the Headright Scandal -- Planters, Plain Folk, and the Enslaved : The Rise of King Cotton -- Secession and Civil War : The Georgia Platform and Slavery's Expansion -- Post-Civil War Georgia : Reconstruction, Political and Social -- The Progressive Era and Jim Crow -- The Depression, New Deal, and World War II -- The Civil Rights Era -- Modern Georgia -- Appendices.
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