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Garrison Frazier

After the Civil War there was a meeting between black ministers and church officers at Savannah with the Secretary of War and Major General Sherman. At that meeting Garrison Frazier was selected as the person to express the common sentiments of the other ministers on the matters of inquiry. General Sherman asked Frazier a series of questions which answers are inspiration for Garrison Frazier LLC, our new development company.

General Sherman asked, “How can you best assist the government in maintaining your freedom?” Frazier’s answer then, is an answer that is relevant today, “The best way we can take care of ourselves is to have  land and turn it and till it by our own labor- that is, by the labor of the women and children and old men; and we can soon maintain ourselves and have something to spare.”

“Forty acres and a mule” was promised to former slaves, following the end of the Civil War. It was
the first systematic attempt to provide a form of reparations to the newly freed slaves. It was an astonishingly radical idea for the time. History has neglected to tell us that the ideas really were generated by the previously mentioned black ministers themselves.