It was Brian Kemp’s family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia.

Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, signed a law saying you
can’t teach Critical Race Theory. Why? As we revealed in the
film, Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman, it was his
family that first brought enslaved Africans to Georgia.


 


This was just before the Revolutionary War, when Georgia was a
free territory. Slavery was prohibited in Georgia, and Georgia at
that time included Alabama and Mississippi. Then the Kemp family
cut a deal with the King of England to bring in Africans from the
rice coast, because the English settlers had no idea how to grow
rice. These Africans were the high tech workers of their time,
they were the ones who knew how to grow rice. Rice was king
before cotton in the South. So, the Kemp family's fortune, the
Governor's fortune, comes from enslaving other people — that’s
where the power of his family comes from, and that’s why he’s so
keen to erase history.


 


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Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman — narrated by
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