"Stories Collected from Slaves" by Leonarda J. Aimar
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- Title:
- "Stories Collected from Slaves" by Leonarda J. Aimar
- Date:
- 1926
- Creator (Personal):
- Aimar, Leonarda Jacques
- Description:
- “Stories Collected from Slaves” by Leonarda J. Aimar is a bound volume of formerly enslaved people's stories. In her transcription, she attempted to capture the storytellers’ colloquial speech, now recognized as the Gullah language. The volume includes a list of addresses, occupations, and diseases of African Americans during their enslavement; an eye-witness account of the Battle of Secessionville on James Island during the Civil War in 1862; how enslaved people were returned to their slaveholders following the Revolutionary War; and an account of Sherman's march from Savannah, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved man, Sam, provides a detailed account of being a butler, coachman, and horse jockey. He also recounts how Union Army Major Robert Anderson took control of Fort Sumter and the events that transpired there on April 12, 1861. Other accounts include an enslaved man’s recollections of his time as a servant to a plantation overseer who sympathized with the Union during the Civil War and formerly enslaved man Jim Alston’s detailed eye-witness account of the 1876 Cainhoy Riot.
- Collection Title:
- Agatha Aimar Simmons Papers, 1903-1962
- Contributing Institution:
- South Carolina Historical Society
- Media Type:
- Manuscripts
- Topical Subject:
- Slavery, Slave records, Accounts, Sherman's March through the Carolinas, Slaves, War, Race relations, Race riots, Battlefields, Slave soldiers, Witnesses, Memory, Freed persons--United States, and Reminiscing
- Geographic Subject:
- South Carolina, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.), Cainhoy (S.C.), and Confederate States of America. Army. Palmetto Guard Artillery.
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- 28-629-12 (1284.00)
- Date Digital:
- 2022-04
- Digitization Specifications:
- 600 dpi, 24-bit depth, color, Epson Expression 10000XL. Archival masters are tiffs.
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Public Domain.
- Access Information:
- For more information and re-use requirements contact the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, 29401.
- Admin ID:
- 269613
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