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Ford C. Greene, Lawrence Williams, and Ralph A. Long, Jr., the first Black students to desegregate Georgia Institute of Technology, Bill Young, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961, courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive, Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Forgotten Fields Cover

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Former Cigar Factory, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1980, courtesy ofNational Register of Historic Places Program, South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Former President Barack Obama and the Dillon County Superintendent, Dillon, South Carolina, 2007, courtesy of Willis Glassgow.

Former site of Fort Mose, Fort Mose Historic State Park, photograph, St. Augustine, Florida, 2008. Escaped slaves from Carolina and Georgia were recognized as free in Spanish Florida, as a military tactic by the Spanish to destabilize the English plantation economy. Free Africans were often taken into the Spanish militia, at sites such as the Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mosé fort north of St. Augustine (also known as Fort Mose), which was established in 1738 by the colonial governor, Manuel de Montiano. The military leader at the fort was a Creole man of African origin, who was baptized as Francisco Menendez by the Spanish.

Former site of Jericho Plantation, image by Hayden Smith, Bethera, South Carolina, 2014.

Former slave market built in 1444, image by Hernâni Viegas, Lagos, Portugal, 2013.

Former slaves on a plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Formerly enslaved, newly freed women and children at Smith Plantation, Hubbard & Mix, 1863, Port Royal, South Carolina, courtesy of Library of Congress.

Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, December 1, 1860, The Charleston Museum Illustrated Newspapers Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum.

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Fort Sumter, where the Echo Africans spent 25 days under federal jurisdiction in the summer of 1858.

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