by Toni | Oct 5, 2017 | Free People of Color, Manumissions
In April of 1848, Eliza Kohne, a free white resident of Charleston, South Carolina filed affidavits attesting to the status of John L. Francis and his brother James Francis as Free People of Color. In South Carolina, the free or enslaved status of a child followed the...
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by Toni | Oct 4, 2017 | Free People of Color, Manumissions
In 1849, Isaac Conner before J.B. Earnest, Magistrate, to file an affidavit respecting the free status of Betsey (also rendered Betsy in the same document) Conner. He offered as evidence a written statement of E.H. Edwards, made in 1836, that states that Betsey Conner...
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by Toni | Sep 15, 2017 | Free People of Color, Manumissions, Remarkable Documents
This document, an affidavit concerning the free status of Sally, Harriet and Martha who were emancipated by Stephen Oliver in Charleston, South Carolina in 1819, lists the names and exact birthdates of Martha’s children, and Harriet’s children and...
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by Toni | Sep 11, 2017 | Free People of Color, Manumissions, Remarkable Documents
On June 19, 1802, Pierce Butler filed in the Charleston Court of Common Pleas a certificate of emancipation for enslaved woman Catey and her children, in return for Catey’s payment to Butler of two hundred pounds currency1. The document states that Catey’s...
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