Primary Content
LISTEN: In Effingham County, paddlers and nature enthusiasts will mark the day on a creek that was the site of a tragedy during the end of slavery. GPB’s Jillian Magtoto reports.
When U.S. Gen. William T. Sherman marched from Atlanta to Savannah near the end of the Civil War, his army burned down Confederate buildings and plantations, freeing thousands of enslaved people along the way.
But the path to freedom was far from smooth.
That’s what Simone Adams learned at Ebenezer Creek in Rincon, Ga., earlier this year, when she found herself on waters with a dark history she had never heard of…