 It was started by some of Savannah's most prominent Black leaders at the time, Ulysses Houston and Garrison Frazier. Frazier was a 67-year-old Baptist minister and a leading member of the Black community. At that now infamous 40 Acres meeting in January 1865, it was Frazier who said, we want land and we want to be left alone. And within just five months of that meeting, Frazier and Houston had created a Black settlement on Skidaway Island.