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Robert Scott Davis

Robert Scott Davis

Robert S. Davis is senior professor of History at Wallace State College, Hanceville, Alabama. His many publications include several articles and books on the American Revolution in Georgia and South Carolina. His research on the letters in American Husbandry started almost forty years ago when he learned of them from a publication of the late Dr. Albert B. Saye. Bob’s failure to find any Georgian who could have been the author led to his first publication in a scholarly journal. The idea that the plantation described was in South Carolina came from a suggestion by Farris W. Cadle, the authority on Georgia land grants and surveys.

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Critical Thinking, The War Years (1775-1783) August 31, 2023 August 31, 2023

Black Soldiers of Liberty

Estimates have appeared in print for generations that 3,000 to 5,000 Black soldiers served in the American military in the Revolution. These claims seldom…

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Battles, Features, People, The War Years (1775-1783) February 22, 2021 June 17, 2022

Black Haitian Soldiers at the Siege of Savannah

The story of the Black Haitian soldiers serving in the French army in the battles to wrest Savannah, Georgia, from the British in September–October…

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Frontier, Law, People, Postwar Politics (>1783) February 3, 2021 January 31, 2021

Comte d’Estaing’s Georgia Land Grants

On the morning of October 9, 1779, one of the bloodiest and most forgotten battles of the American Revolution took place during the Siege…

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Loyalists, Patriots, People, The War Years (1775-1783) December 17, 2020 December 15, 2020

Women of Revolutionary War Georgia

The September 3, 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Revolution published “Margaret Eustace and Her Family Pass Through the American Revolution.” Margaret Eustace, the…

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Letters and Correspondence, People, Postwar Conflict (>1783), The War Years (1775-1783) September 3, 2020 September 2, 2020

Margaret Eustace and Her Family Pass through the American Revolution

John L. Smith, Jr. introduced readers of the Journal of the American Revolution to Margaret Eustace in his article, “The Scandalous Divorce Case that Influenced…

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Constitutional Debate, People, Politics, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Postwar Politics (>1783) February 11, 2019 February 9, 2019

The Dark and Heroic Histories of Georgia’s Signers

Revolutions are complex multi-sided economic, political, social, and technological events. They begin as conservative movements. As each side fears losing, all of these different…

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People November 28, 2017 November 26, 2017

Ebenezer Smith Platt: An American In Newgate Prison In 1777

In the early summer of 1775, South Carolinia patriots outfitted the schooner Liberty (formally the Elizabeth) as what historian Charles C. Jones called as…

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People May 3, 2017 April 20, 2017

The Murder of Colonel Dooly Of Georgia: A Revolutionary War Mystery

Georgia historian Otis Ashmore wrote that “of the many heroic men who illustrated that stormy period of the Revolution in Georgia that ‘tried men’s…

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The War Years (1775-1783) February 9, 2017 February 3, 2017

Crossing the Great Divide: The Battle at Van Creek, Georgia, February 11, 1779

Due to the work done by many people since 1976 in uncovering the lost history of the American Revolution, for the first time in…

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Arts & Literature July 17, 2014 August 28, 2016

The Mystery Book and the Forgotten Founding Father

One of the great literary mysteries of colonial American history is the identity of “An American,” the anonymous author of American Husbandry (London, 1775)….

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People July 5, 2013 August 28, 2016

Austin Dabney: Georgia’s African American Hero of the Revolution

George Rockingham Gilmer wrote a heroic saga of the life, service, and sacrifices of Austin Dabney, an African American Georgia Revolutionary War hero. He…

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People April 15, 2013 August 28, 2016

Portraits of Southern Partisans: Likenesses of Thomas Brown and Elijah Clarke

The battles of and between English born merchant Loyalist partisan Thomas Brown and illiterate native North Carolina American guerilla Elijah Clarke lacks for nothing,…

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