Your best online help would be at http://www.galileo.usg.edu. Select Digital Library of Georgia. Then select Georgia Legislative Documents. You can do a word search on the documents from 1799 to the near present. There may be other sources you might want to investigate on Galileo also. It's a great resource. A search for the phrase "chain gang", for instance, turned up 372 hits. Barbara Smallwood Stock, CGRS Marietta, GA -----Original Message----- From: TooFem@aol.com [mailto:TooFem@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 6:14 PM To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAGEN] (no subject) Wondering if anyone can offer suggestions to this woman......... Hello, I wondered if you would be able to indicate where I could find out more information about historical prison practices in Worth County, specifically Alfred, in the late 1850s (approx. 1855-57). I am researching the use of African American chain gangs in your county during the antebellum period and would welcome any information you could provide on this issue, whether in the form of a web address or historical study. Thank you very much for your consideration. Sincerely, Lenore Kitts U.C.Berkeley, Dept. Comparative Literature llkitts@socrates.berkeley.edu MK Harrison <A HREF="http://mkharrison.com">mkharrison.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/landing/homelandsweeps2/landing2.html?SourceCo de=3913&iid=3913%3A+Sweepstakes+1">Ancestry.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabarrow/">Barrow County, GA</A> <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaworth/">Worth County, GA</A> "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."   --  Theodore Roosevelt ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Got a problem? Contact your RC or ASC at GAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com