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Randolph County was created on December 20, 1828, and named after the Virginia planter and politician John Randolph.
This area is considered part of the Black Belt, upland areas across the Deep South that were developed in the 19th century as plantations after invention of the cotton gin made processing of short-staple cotton profitable. Enslaved blacks made up the vast majority of workers on the plantations, with hundreds of thousands being transported through the domestic slave trade from the coast and Upper South. After the Civil War, many freedmen and their descendants continued to work on plantations in the county and region, comprising the majority of county population until the 1930s.
Adjacent Counties
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- Benevolence
- Coleman
- Cuthbert (County Seat)
- Shellman
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