latin american chamber of commerce atlanta Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/latin-american-chamber-of-commerce-atlanta Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:11:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Georgia and Latin America http://toursmaps.com/georgia-latin-america.html http://toursmaps.com/georgia-latin-america.html#respond Thu, 12 May 2016 07:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204007 With the ousting of the Spanish in the eighteenth century, the history of Latinos living in Georgia remains largely unrecorded from 1742 until modern times. The history of relations between Georgia and Latin America is better documented. Certainly, the presence of the plantation system and the heavy reliance on slave labor created strong trading ties between Georgia port cities and many Caribbean islands, including Cuba and Hispaniola. It is estimated that between 1755 and 1767 more than 60 percent of the slaves brought into Savannah harbor were from the Caribbean. There is also a strong Georgian thread throughout the history

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