Talk:History of Atlanta, Georgia

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Considering that Atlanta was in Fulton County, which was 20.5% slave in 1860 and 45.7 % "colored"/African-American in 1870, it is hard to know where to start on adding the African-American presence to the city's history. There is quite a blank in the article so far.

While north Georgia did not have the largest enslaved populations of the middle Piedmont or the coast, Cobb County just to the north was 27% slave in 1860, with that population mostly working on cotton plantations and held by large planters (men who held 20 or more slaves and were part of the political and social elite of the state).

Parkwells 02:26, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The section on Reconstruction and its aftermath needs more material - This is when Atlanta's segregated housing was established, and whites attempted to keep and re-impose supremacy in political, economic and social life. --Parkwells 15:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)