On this day in 1870, Georgia became the last former Confederate state to be readmitted into the U.S.

Henry Minter was working as a farm laborer in Georgia in the 1870s when he met Mary Dotson, a young black servant girl. The couple never married – which would have been illegal at the time ...

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