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What Happened In Harris Neck?: Racism, Resistance, And Futures, Anna Sharpe
What Happened In Harris Neck?: Racism, Resistance, And Futures, Anna Sharpe
Theses and Dissertations--Geography
This project traces the history and legacy of the seizure of Harris Neck, approximately 2,600 acres on the Georgia coast, once largely composed of rice and cotton plantations. After the Civil War, freedmen and women transformed the area into a thriving Black community. The community of approximately a hundred families, a school, a church, a post office, and many small farms and businesses flourished from the late 1800’s until 1942, when the federal government seized Harris Neck for use as an Army airfield.
The procedures used by the federal government to seize and, later, reallocate Harris Neck will be examined, …