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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Russ Bynum

Judge asked to cancel referendum in slave descendants' zoning battle with Georgia county

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Elected commissioners of a Georgia county who rolled back development restrictions protecting one of the South's last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants asked a judge Friday to stop an Oct. 1 referendum that gives voters a chance to overturn those changes.

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