George Robison Black (March 24, 1835 – November 3, 1886) was an American slave owner,[1] politician and lawyer.

His wife, Nellie Peters Black, became a prominent social activist.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1857 and began practice in Savannah, Georgia.

[4] During the American Civil War, Black served in the Confederate States Army as a first lieutenant in the Phoenix Riflemen and later as a lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-third Georgia Regiment.

Black was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1880 as a Democrat in the 47th Congress; however, he lost his reelection campaign in 1882.