Gourdin Plantation Journal

Title:

Gourdin Plantation Journal

Date:

1850

Creator (Personal):

Gourdin, Peter, 1813-1893

Description:

The Gourdin Plantation Journal owned by Peter Gourdin of Cote Bas Plantation is a journal written in 1865 filled with mostly blank pages but when applicable, contains lists of slaves and later freedmen, women and children on the plantation documenting their names, ages, deaths and relationships from the 1840s to 1860s. The names of the former slaves and later freedmen, women and children on the plantation are listed as: Alick, Amey, Andy, Bandz, Bathesheba, Bep/Young Bep, Betty, Binkey, Bitty, Buchanan, Camda, Camdan, Caroline, Cato, Caty, Charlotte, Charly, Cinda, Cretia, Davis, Dennis, Diana, Dinah, Dolly, Ede, Edmund, Emery, Emma, Ephraim, Fillmore, Frank Pina, Frederick, Hagar, Hannah, Hector, Hesther, Jackson, James, Jane, Jenny, Jim/Big Jim/Little Jim, Jimmy/Jimy, Joe, John, Julia, June, Lavinia, Lenah, Linah, Lyndy, March, Margaret, Martha, Mary, Minda, Miria, Nanny, Old Sam, Part, Patuna, Peggy/Old Peggy, Pompey, Rachel, Richard, Rinty, Rock, Sally, Sampson, Samuel, Sarah, Silvy, Smart, Stephen and Toney.

Collection Title:

Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations Journals, 1865-1877

Contributing Institution:

South Carolina Historical Society

Media Type:

Manuscripts

Personal or Corporate Subject:

Gourdin, Peter, 1813-1893

Topical Subject:

Account books, Freedmen, Death, Plantations, Nineteenth century, Age, Enslaved persons, and Enslaved children

Geographic Subject:

South Carolina

S.C. County:

Berkeley County (S.C)

Language:

English

Shelving Locator:

34-185

Date Digital:

2021-07

Digitization Specifications:

400 dpi, 24-bit depth color, Bookeye 4 Basic. 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:

261849