by Toni | Oct 24, 2017 | Remarkable Documents
One of the duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the former slaveholding states where it operated, was to oversee labor contracts between Freedmen and planters. Labor contracts stated the terms and obligations of planters and Freedmen. Freedmen agreed to plant,...
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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 14, 2017 | Blog, Remarkable Documents
The lists below, made in March of 1862, record the names of contrabands in the Union Army camp at Beaufort, SC. The records are part of the collection “United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866,” available...
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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 | Blog, Remarkable Documents
List of Contrabands at Graham’s Plantation, March 15, 18621 NameAgeSexOccupationFormer Master May24MDriverGraham Sue48FField Hand " Moriah19FServant " Bess15F1/2 Hand " April14MCripple " Frederick4 moM " Toney50MField Hand " Clarissa46F " " Binah22F " "...
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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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