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iff I pass COI issues, then the James Ward Porter article to fit as already shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_officeholders_during_Reconstruction#Georgia

"Georgia Eli Barnes, state legislator from Hancock County Tunis Campbell, State Senator from Georgia James Ward Porter, state legislator from Chatham County Henry McNeal Turner, state legislator from Bibb County William Guilford, state legislator from Upson County William Henry Harrison, state legislator from Hancock County Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, state senator from Chatham County Thomas M. Allen, state representative from Jasper County Thomas Beard, state representative from Richmond County " start of article, to be rearranged: Reverend Professor James Ward Porter, GA state legislator, was the son of Martha Givens, a former slave who purchased her freedom (Ref. Gen. Sherman mtg in Savannah) before he was born in Charleston, SC. Because he was born free he was fortunate to be able to obtain an education ("free Blacks, but only in Charleston, South Carolina, continued to have open educational opportunities in the 1800s." Herman, P. 26) ref. below...

Yellin, p. 192, in Harriet Jacobs comments that Porter used his music classes as a cover to teach reading and writing when he taught a clandestine school.

In order to move to St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia to train the choir, The Black Code, in this case the Slave Code, of Georgia required that he have a white Guardian.

He is recorded as a lay minister and choir master under tutelage of white guardian in out of print book: Africian American Episcopalians in Savannah: Strife, Struggle and Salvation, 1750-1995 by Charles L Hoskins, 1995, (OCLC: 34330751).

He became a prominent minister, educator and Conductor on the Underground Railroad before becoming one of the first Colored Representatives to the GA state legislator during the Reconstruction of the South. He had 3 wives and travelled extensively. Ordination

Ordination: minster of AME church, taught and preached, later appointed to Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Hamilton, Bermuda, finally Hamilton Canada

Date: 1879 Place: Thomasville, Georgia, USA

Event

Event: presented with Silver Cup by St. Philip's Church Charleston, SC 1856, passed to son James

Type: Departure Date: 1856 Place: Charleston, SC

Event: brought by Bishop of St. Stephens Episcopal Church to train choir (had a white Guardian) Mr Josh. Burke at First Chruch = colored vocal musician

Type: Arrival Date: 1856 Place: Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA

Event: as narrated by Martha Ann Gardner in letter

Type: Death of his father Date: 1826 Place: South Carolina

Occupation

Occupation: Republican member of Georia State Legislature from Chatham County; Also 1st principal of West Broad Street Public School

Date: 1868 Place: Chatham, GA

Occupation: professor of music (under George O. Robinson) and literature, tailor by trade (& Grndpa says he was Conductor on Underground Railroad...)

Date: before 1851 Place: Charleston, SC

Burial

Burial: body returned from NY where died after taken off train w/severe cold, buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery by Rev. Dr. Smith of St. Phillips A.M.E. church

Date: 16 Nov 1895 Place: Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA

Blessing

Blessing: Mr. William Claghorn (colored) donated room = St. Stephens Chapel, consecrated by Bishop Stephen Elliot (white)

Religion: Episcopalian until after Emancipation, then Methodist minister; elected Justic of the Peace after Legislative service, later appointed customs inspector and principal of public school

Date: 1871 Place: Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA

Military Service

Military Service: Sherman Meets The Colored Ministers In Savannah

Date: 12 January 1865 Place: Savanah, GA

Property

Property: U.S. Freedmen Bank Records, 1865-1874

Date: abt 1870 Place: GA

external links: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Porter-7014

References: Harriet Jacobs A Life by Jean Fagan Yellin 0465092896 (ISBN13: 9780465092895)

SOUTHERN BLACKS: ACCOUNTS OF LEARNING TO READ BEFORE 1861 study by Herman, 1984

out of print book: Africian American Episcopalians in Savannah: Strife, Struggle and Salvation, 1750-1995 by Charles L Hoskins, 1995, (OCLC: 34330751).

The Black Codes in Georgia: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/APG/2005-09/1126554666 and http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/slavelaw.htm#11. citing GA Slave Code 1848: "11. Punishment for teaching slaves or free persons of color to read. -- If any slave, Negro, or free person of color, or any white person, shall teach any other slave, Negro, or free person of color, to read or write either written or printed characters, the said free person of color or slave shall be punished by fine and whipping, or fine or whipping, at the discretion of the court."