Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years

SPARTA, Ga. — In 1850, Andrew Benjamin Tarbutton enslaved 25 people in central Georgia. A year later, he purchased more than a dozen additional people off the docks in Savannah and marched them toward his home, setting the foundation for his family’s generational wealth. Four generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his […] The post Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years appeared first on Capital B News.