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Slave descendants fight to protect their threatened island community at Georgia’s highest court

Hogg Hummock earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places. But for protections to preserve the community, residents depend on the local government in McIntosh County, where 65% of the 11,100 residents are white.

FILE – A sticker saying “Keep Sapelo Geechee” is worn on the shirt of George Grovner, a resident of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island, during a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. (AP Photo/Ross Bynum, File)
FILE – A sticker saying “Keep Sapelo Geechee” is worn on the shirt of George Grovner, a resident of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island, during a meeting of McIntosh County commissioners, Sept. 12, 2023, in Darien, Ga. (AP Photo/Ross Bynum, File)
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Hogg Hummock is among a dwindling number of small communities started by emancipated island slaves.

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