African
Americans from the Gullah-Geechee culture became the first “oyster men” on the
Georgia coast by the 19th century, but companies, often owned by European immigrants,
later moved in for processing and canning oysters, researcher Ingram informed
the Bulloch County Historical Society.
GS grad student rakes up history of Georgia oystering and ‘oyster wars’
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