Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,088

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,088

This is the grave of Robert Toombs. Born in Washington, Georgia in 1810, Toombs grew up in the slaver elite. His father ran his slaves in the fields, profiting from their free labor. Toombs was educated that this was the only way to live and he would spend his life promoting slavery like a religion. He went to the University of Georgia in 1824, right at the end of the era when people this young attended college. He got in trouble for card playin…