The estate of William A. Barton consists of eight entries including the hiring out of two enslaved people and a value estimation of the enslaved people.
Handwritten correspondence from Esau Jenkins to Herbert U. Fielding and James E. Clyburn regarding the Political Awareness League of Charleston County 1972 Appreciation Dinner.
Program for the Election of Attorney George Payton to the South Carolina State Senate including a handwritten note from Septima P. Clark to Josephine Rider dated January 12.
Handwritten speech, drafted by David Coleman for the 1991 Freedom Fund Banquet, which thanks the Freedom Fund Planning Committee, shares the mission of this year's banquet, and offers thanks to participants at the banquet.
Handwritten Charleston Branch of the NAACP memorandum from Joe Thompson to Cedric James, President, serving as a submission of resignation as Chairman of the Education Committee of the NAACP.
Handwritten Charleston Branch of the NAACP memorandum from Jeradine J. Haile to the Executive Board regarding Haile's resignation from the position of treasurer.
Several promissary notes for the hiring of enslaved people. Enslaved person Caroline, from the estate of Harding Browning, was hired by T.M. Stine for 65 dollars for a year of employment. Also included is a voucher for the capture and return of an enslaved person and an entry for shoes for slaves.
Documents for the sale of enslaved people Margaret and her infant son Thomas, as well as Margaret's future children, "with the future issue and increase of Margaret", to Henry Wessels from Francis A. Mitchell for the sum of eleven hundres and fifty dollars. Auction was carried out by J.S. Riggs auctioneers.
Documents for the sale of an enslaved woman named Margaret and her unborn child to Francis A. Mitchell from Benjamin Lazarus for the sum of one thousand dollars. Auction was carried out by J.S. Riggs auctioneers.
Handwritten correspondence from Ella L. Jones to the members of the Committee of Management for the Coming Street Y.W.C.A. regarding organizational matters.
Handwritten correspondence from Ella L. Jones to the members of the Committee of Management for the Coming Street Y.W.C.A. regarding organizational matters.
Handwritten correspondence from Ella L. Jones to the members of the Committee of Management for the Coming Street Y.W.C.A. regarding organizational matters.
This scrapbook, compiled by James H. Holloway (1849-1913), contains legal documents, personal and business correspondence, receipts, ephemera, clippings and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family, a prominent free family of color in Charleston, SC. Legal documents include deeds (1806, 1821, 1871), a conveyance (1811), slave bills of sale including one for the slave "Betty" (1829), an agreement (1829) to apprentice the slave boy Carlos in the carpenters and house joiner's trade, exhorter licenses to preach and a photograph of a 1797 document declaring patriarch Richard Holliday (Holloway) a free mulatto. Personal and business correspondence include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the "Holloway Negroes", a letter (1831) from Samuel Benedict about emigrating to Liberia, agreements for carpentry work, and information about the Brown Fellowship Society, the Century Fellowship Society, the Minors Moralist Society and the Bonneau Literary Society. Also included are invitations, Confederate and corporate tax receipts, receipts for general merchandise, and Confederate scrip. Other letters and newspaper clippings, including letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway, concern Negro taxes, Negro slaveholders, the Liberia movement, the Methodist Episcopal Church, civil rights and related topics. James H. Holloway's niece, Mae Holloway Purcell, preserved the scrapbook after his death and added to its contents. The bound scrapbook was microfilmed by the South Caroliniana Library in 1977 but was later disbound and reorganized. Using the microfilm as a guide, archivists at the Avery Research Center attempted to recreate the original order and this digital presentation of the scrapbook reflects those efforts.
A press release from the national office of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America describing the events of the Orangeburg Massacre and its misrepresentation in the media. This release was to be distributed to local chapters of the DuBois Clubs to educate its members on the events of the Orangeburg Massacre, to suggest ways for them to get involved in promoting awareness, and to advocate for mass mobilization against racial repression.
Fact sheet written in the early 1970s relating the events leading up to and including the Orangeburg Massacre and the actions of the state of South Carolina since the incident. Includes information compiled regarding "Brother" Cleveland Sellers' trial and indictment.
Western Union Telegram sent by members of the Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft relating the shared struggle of the Freedom Movement and the Anti-war movement. The Kentucky Conference was planned to occur on February 11, 1968 and was expected to attract as many as 500 people.
A fact sheet released by Atlanta University relating the events of the Orangeburg Massacre and advocating dressing in black on February 15th, 1968 to commemorate the lives of the three men slain on the day of their funerals.
The Friendly Moralist Society was a benevolent society for free brown (mulatto or mixed race) men established in Charleston, S.C. in 1838. The group provided burial aid and purchased plots for those in need and provided charitable assistance to widows and orphans of deceased members. This Proceedings section consists of minutes taken at organizational meetings from 1841 to 1856. These minutes offer insight into the conflict between free black and brown individuals at this time. Monthly minutes of May 1844 and Oct. 1848, for instance, detail the exclusion of prospective members for being black rather than brown and the Annual Day speech of 1848 addresses the issues of being colored versus black or white. This conflict and frequent issues with finances resulted in several schisms and mass resignations in the society and is mentioned in a brief history of the society in the Annual Day address of 1853. 398p.
This "Absentees Book" of the Friendly Moralist Society details member attendance from 1842 to 1849. Many of the entries are annotated frequently in pencil, providing explanation for member absences such as "sick", "out of town", or "not summoned", etc. It also notes fines levied for unexcused absences per society rules. 38p.
Memorandum regarding APRI financial crisis from an Ad Hoc Committee meeting on December 18, 1976 of APRI members from Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
Arrear book containing arrear records for the Daughters of Century Society, 1904-1940, and minutes for the Brown Fellowship Society, 1940-1975, a benevolent society of free African-American and racially mixed men founded in 1790.
Letter to William Craft written by Chairman of the Committee of the London Emancipation Society, George Thompson, that urges Craft as he travels in the provinces to hold meetings for the Committee and Abolitionist movement to garner support in furthering their cause and to solicit donations.
