I have been publishing articles about cemetery explorations for years and today's is one of the ones that made me the most sad when I saw it.<\/p>\n
Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, with the approval of the Third Amendment<\/strong> to the Constitution of that country, after a bloody war that pitted the northern and southern states largely against each other. This question. As a curiosity, the then British province of Georgia was the first of the Thirteen Colonies of North America to prohibit slavery in 1735<\/strong>, despite being the last of the Thirteen to be established. A royal decree legalized slavery there again in 1751.<\/p>\n In Georgia, slavery was closely linked to cotton crops.<\/strong> In 1861, Georgia voted in favor of secession and joined the Confederate States, which sought to maintain slavery in force. One of the slave-owning farms in that state belonged to the family of Charles Lee Smith in Talbotton<\/strong>, Talbot County.<\/p>\n The Smiths created their own cemetery next to their plantation<\/strong>, where both their family members and their slaves were buried. After the abolition of slavery, that cemetery continued to house burials of African Americans, until very recently<\/strong> (around the year 2000). A month ago, the YouTube channel \"Sidestep: Adventures Into History\"<\/a> p< strong>published a video showing this cemetery, mostly abandoned and in poor condition<\/strong>, despite its large size: there are about a thousand burials there:<\/p>\n
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