A newspaper clipping on cemeteries at sea, explaining how people, no matter how different they are physically or financially, are alike in the cemetery of the sea. Includes the notation, "Who can tell where lie tens of thousands of Africa's sons who perished in the "middle passage?"
List of names of South Carolina Militia members. McKewn notes particular aspects of their ability to perform duty including age or other distinguishing features.
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.
This newspaper clipping titled "The Penitentiary is the Place" discusses the arrest of eleven men, now freed slaves, referenced as "negroes," for murdering another black man.
A list of offenses resulting in exclusion from the clergy which includes murder, "robbing church," "robbing any persons in their dwelling house," "buggery," piracy, accessories in "petty treason," stealing, rape, burglary, "consulting with evil spirits, taking up dead bodies for purposes of witchcraft," "persons connected with slaves in actual insurrection guilty of treason," and "carrying away a slave."
Miscellaneous Inventories, 1813-1817, is a bound volume kept by or for a member of the Ball family. The volume includes inventories of furniture, kitchen ware, clothing, and other household decorations such as candlesticks, bookcases, shades, looking glasses and crockery. The volume also includes a list of enslaved men, women and children divided by families.
A letter to Harold Cranston on Capers Island from James Vidal discussing a vessel ready to transport items and Vidal's haste to Summerville. Vidal makes the notation he would put the "black hand" to work unloading items if Cranston transports them on the vessel.
The first side of this document is a brief entry concerning "the business of the faithful legislator." The reverse side of the document contains a formula for making pills for "glandular obstructions."
An agreement between Charles Alston Sr. and former enslaved persons, now freedmen and women, at Fairfield Plantation. The agreement outlines the duties that Charles Alston and the freed persons must follow. The signatures of the freed persons, which includes children, are marked with an "x."
An agreement regarding six enslaved persons bequeathed to Henry Hilliard Gooch's children. The names of the enslaved persons are Melisy, William, Amelia, Miles, Dave and John.
A list of enslaved persons and other property that have not been appraised. The names of the enslaved persons are listed as Dolly, Jenny, Scipio, Lucy and eight children, "Clarender" and six children, Amos, Robert, Rosa (a girl about twenty-two) and a young boy named Scipio. The names include valuations above them.
A list of 157 enslaved persons at Friendfield and the Point Plantations. The list is divided into adults and children, and includes notations such as "carpenter," "cripple," "old," "driver" and "nurse."
Final notice of auction for Nightingale Hall Plantation by auctioneer Alonzo White. The notice gives information concerning the location and fields of the plantation, the property's condition, cattle and the names of enslaved persons living there. The reverse side of the document is a statement concerning a fight between two enslaved men in which one drew a knife when ordered to stop. This enslaved man had been taken off the plantation.
Final notice of auction for Nightingale Hall Plantation by auctioneer Alonzo White. The notice gives information concerning the location and fields of the plantation, the property's condition, cattle and the names of enslaved persons living there.
Final notice of auction for Nightingale Hall Plantation by auctioneer Alonzo White. The notice gives information concerning the location and fields of the plantation, the property's condition, cattle and the names of enslaved persons living there.
A list of enslaved people owned by Benjamin Allston Jr. divided by family units. Notations include specific jobs of enslaved persons such as driver, nurse, cook, washer, carpenter, blacksmith, cooper, poultry woman, hunter and gardener.
A document outlining statistics of a rice plantation with one-hundred enslaved persons as a response for a request of this information from the Executive Department for the state of South Carolina. Statistics include labor performed by enslaved persons with special circumstances for pregnant women, types of food, allowances, clothing and blankets given out to enslaved persons, types of buildings the enslaved people lived in, the medical attention they receive including how faithful servants and valuable servants were given priority, comparisons between northern, foreign and native doctors, the religions the enslaved population practice, the teaching of religion to enslaved children, and general remarks about a decrease in the amount of runaways and rebellion in the last twenty years.
This document is a tax return for J.H.M. and John Drayton in St. Andrews Parish. Makes notation of "Negros List" naming the enslaved men, women, and children by first name as well as their age. The names of the male slaves are listed as Frank, Dick, "Lummere," Moses, K Joe, Joe, Caesar, Harry, Hector, Charles, Solomon, Senor, Pompy and Skye. The names of the female slaves are listed as Nancy, Cloei, Jeney, Nany, Amelea, Linda, Deana, Judy, Peggy, Perida, "Christan," "Baby," Harriet, Tena, "B. Mulery," "Mury" and Celia.
A document discussing the discharge of a patient named "Marton Starling." Makes notation regarding two slaves, referenced as "negroes" named Elick and Humphrey.
A list of slaves and their prices divided by lots. Makes notations next to specific slaves writing their jobs such as "Simon, Carpenter" and "Lucy, House."
The Edisto Island Presbyterian Church Register is an unbound book recorded between 1837-1901. The register contains minutes from church sessions, baptism and marriage records, church memberships and church controversies with references to enslaved men and women by name and the accusations against them. Also included is the constitution of the Edisto Union Church, which was formed by Africans Americans, formerly enslaved, who took over the Edisto Island Presbyterian Church following the Civil War.
A list of enslaved men, women and children under the title "List of Negroes." The list includes first names, dates of birth, gender, their work as a full or half time field hand, diseases and their "usefulness." Makes notations on specific slaves and their abilities to work as well as their specific jobs on the plantation.
This loose page is a record of deaths and births in the Benseman family. The reverse side of the document includes the notation "my negro woman had a boy child" and "my servant Patty had a boy child."
A document with the title "Negroes, The Estate of Peter Villepontoux Deceased" in which the writer lists the names of enslaved men, women and children. Makes notation "Abby-mulatto wench" as well as the relationships between slaves.
Letter to Langdon Cheves Jr. from Langdon Cheves Sr. discussing a spread of whooping cough on the plantation and the enslaved man Jim who ran away. Cheves' explains that if any enslaved person runs away, they should be sought for at Guerards at New River Bridge as a few of the enslaved persons at Cheves' plantations were bought from that slaveholder.
A document transcription of dialogue between a "Mr. Learned" and Dr. Franz Joseph Gall on phrenology, a pseudoscience primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules.
