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 13, 2017 | Blog, Manumissions, Remarkable Documents
This remarkable document, an affidavit concerning the free status of Josephine Pritchard of Charleston, South Carolina, documents six generations of a single free black family, through the maternal line. Surnames are Pritchard, Johnson, Payne, Owens, and Perroneau...
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by Toni | Sep 12, 2017 | Manumissions
In May of 1817, slaveholder Jacob Eggart of Charleston, South Carolina filed a manumission (emancipation) petition in the Court of Common Pleas for “Julia and her child Harriett, Julia the mother being about 20 years and her child Harriett about 10 months old.” Please...
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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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