George Sugar, the slave from the Muskogee Nation who became the ‘wealthiest Negro in Indian Territory’
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He was a man of many parts. Sugar T. George was a soldier, town king, community leader, and possibly a lawyer and reverend. At the time of his death on this day in 1900, George was also said to have been the “wealthiest Negro in Indian Territory.” The area which is known today as the...
