Tuesday, April 3, 2012

South Carolina Genealogy Database

South Carolina – African Americans – 1525 to 1865

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SC African American History, Resources

SC Slavery, Civil War

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Slaves

Buying and selling human beings - examines slave trade from the shores of Africa to the markets of Charleston, including capture, the Middle Passage, auctions and cost, and the separation of families
Everyday life - labor and living conditions ... describes work loads, accountability systems, rice cultivation, slave quarters, clothing, and diet
Everyday death - talks about the constant presence of disease and death in South Carolina's slave community ... also gives info about African-American cemeteries and burial traditions
In their own words - first-person narratives and histories of South Carolina slaves and ex-slaves
Black revolts
– Stono Rebellion - 1739 - the largest slave uprising in America prior to the Revolution - scroll down for additional resources
– Denmark Vessey's Conspiracy - 1822 - recounts details surrounding Vessey's plot to overtake Charleston ... includes terms of Gullah Jack's sentence and record of Monday Gell's confessions
South Carolina's slave population - includes breakdowns by year and explains the relationship between SC's high slave population and the lowcountry's unique suitablity to rice culture ... also looks at our slave population compared to other Southern states
Slavery at South Carolina College, 1801-1865 - documenting the role slaves played in the early years of the college that became the University of South Carolina
White opinion - collection of online letters, diaries, and books written by nineteenth-century white South Carolinians documenting their attitudes toward slavery

Freedmen

What was a freedman? - meanings of the word "freedmen" before and after the Civil War
Free Persons of Color in Charleston, SC, before the Civil War - everything from where they worked to where they lived ... also explains how they obtained their freedom, the competition they faced from white laborers, and the increasing limits imposed on them by South Carolina's fearful white government
Mitchelville: Experiment in Freedom - begun on Hilton Head Island in 1862 as part of the Port Royal Experiment ... Mitchelville has been called "the place where freedom began" for South Carolina's Sea Island slaves
A freedman testifies - 1863 - Harry McMillan speaks about black people's lives in bondage and their aspirations in freedom - emphasizes their desire for land
The Freed Men of South Carolina - 1862 - conditions of Sea Island freedmen according to Port Royal Relief Committee's J. Miller M'Kim
Brown Fellowship Society - Charleston social club - established 1790 - renamed Century Fellowship Society in 1890 or 1892 - scroll to bottom
– Additional info - explains the Society's role in securing a burial site (photograph) for its members as well as the subsequent desecration of this site (called Macphelah) by the Catholic Diocese ... also mentions the Society for Free Blacks of Dark Complexion (later called the Brotherly Society), a similar organization which established the Ephrath cemetery for people of pure African descent
Freedmen's Bureau Records - reports that include information on conditions, laws, land grants, and more

Soldiers, Sailors

Charleston's Free Blacks During the Civil War
– "Dats what dis regiment did for de Epiopian race" - Thomas Long, former slave and private in the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, talks about the meaning of black military service in the Civil War
– "Reminiscences of My Life in Camp" - the story of the 33rd US Colored Troops, formerly known as the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, as told by an African-American regimental laundress who was also the wife of one of the soldiers ... incredible, easy-to-read, and includes photographs - scroll down for text
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Company Two - United States
Robert Smalls - a Beaufort slave who hijacked a Confederate steamship, disguised himself as a white captain, and sailed to Union safety ... later he became a captain in the US Navy and a representative in the US Congress

Related Resources

Slave Dwelling Project - Kingstree native Joseph McGill, a program officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, documents his overnight stays in rural cabins and urban slave quarters throughout the Southeast to raise public awareness for the need to preserve them
– Exploring Urban Slavery at Aiken-Rhett House - Charleston, April 2011
– Daughter overnights with dad who works to preserve slave dwellings - Middleton Place, West Ashley, March 2011
– Slave Cabin Overnights Continue to Enlighten - Heyward House, Bluffton, May 2010
– Descendants of Brattonsville's Enslaved Meet with the Slave Cabin Project - McConnels, November 2010
– Slave Cabin Project Visits Mansfield Plantation - Georgetown, October 2010
– Slave Cabin Project Visits a Site in Need of Restoration - Anderson, September 2010
– Original, Historic Fabric Makes Hobcaw Barony Slave Cabin Stay Special - Georgetown, August 2010
– Slave Cabin Project Moves to the Privately-Owned Goodwill Plantation - Eastover, July 2010
– Juneteenth Stay at Slave Cabin Offers Several Firsts - McLeod Plantation, James Island, June 2010
– Slave Cabin Project Unites Living History with Preservation - Magnolia Plantation, West Ashley, May 2010
– The Door is Open. Who are you? Slave Dwelling Project Visits Friendfield Plantation - Friendfield Plantation, Georgetown, March 2012
African American Resources for Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens Counties - bibliography and references to printed resources and archived records
– African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780-1900 - summarization of book by W.J. Megginson
Documenting the American South - University of North Carolina - online histories of both black and white Southerners - contains info about slavery and what life in the South was like between 1861 and 1865
Excerpts from Slave Narratives - University of Houston - large collection of narratives and oral histories by ex-slaves from many Southern states
Piecing the past together - the role of historians and archaeologists in learning about the history of South Carolina's "invisible people" – African-Americans
Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices from the Special Collections Library - Duke University - bills of sale, receipt books, letters, and other documents shed light on the "life experiences of American slaves" - includes many South Carolina resources

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