Landmark report details lasting impact of slavery in key Georgia county

Taskforce report examines how effects of slavery and Jim Crow in Fulton county continue to harm Black residents

A Georgia taskforce has released a landmark report that details the lasting impact of slavery and its afterlives in Fulton county.

The report, spanning more than 600 pages, is based on original research by the Fulton county reparations taskforce and a review of primary source documents. It is the first - of its kind in the nation, according to county leaders and researchers. Rather than examining the impact of slavery and racism at the federal or state level, the harm report investigated the role of the county government.