All Will Be Equalized!

In 1526, approximately one hundred people were kidnapped, enslaved, and brought by Spanish colonialists to what is now Coastal Georgia. They were the first enslaved Africans to set foot on the North American continent. They rebelled, emancipated themselves, and escaped to freedom with help from the region's Indigenous population. In doing so, these "freedom seekers" inaugurated a tradition of inter-racial solidarity that animated the history of anti-slavery action for the next three centuries.

From Afro-Indigenous communities of the Sea Islands and the Okefenokee Swamp to inter-racial networks of anti-Confederate resistance during the Civil War, and post-war labor strikes by Black and white granite workers at Stone Mountain, this new study of Georgia's freedom movements tells the story of oppressed peoples of African, Indigenous, and even European descent who fought together against slavery and colonialism while building multi-racial communities of resistance in remote areas outside of state or colonial authority.

Andrew Zonneveld is an independent historian, Georgia master naturalist, and convening council member of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology. He is also the co-founder of the Atlanta Radical Book Fair.