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Yes-Georgia was one such penal colony and look at how today it is a “swing state”. For enslaved Black people Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi were the most treacherous. Most were afraid of being sold to people in those states.

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It was called "being sold down the river," the origin of the term.

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Yes indeedy. Having grown up in the South, I routinely use the phrase about something “going South” to mean something going to shit.

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