id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
race-1997-01		race-1997-01	1997		.txt	text/plain	1969	84	61	Before the end of slavery, Savannah had more free blacks and black businesses than any other municipality in Georgia, and there were many successful businesses in Macon. In Philadelphia, which was regarded as the largest and most important center of free black life in the country, a 1798 report showed that almost 25 percent of the black families used their property for business.	cache/race-1997-01.txt	txt/race-1997-01.txt