Mar 28, 2017 | LCA Main Blog
The estate inventory of John Raven Mathews, filed May 8, 1867, includes a list of more than 170 enslaved people who were freed by the United States government in 1865. Although the enslaved community held by Mathews had been freed two years before Mathews’ death...
Mar 27, 2017 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
The estate inventory of Thomas Porcher, made at White Hall and Goshen plantations near Pinopolis in Berkeley, SC on 24 Nov 1843, lists the names of 135 enslaved people at White Hall and 106 enslaved people at Goshen1. This document was indexed by Alana Thevenet. Those...
Mar 7, 2017 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
In the years between 1865 and 1872, the Freedmen’s Bureau provided inpatient and outpatient medical care to Freedmen and poor whites at hospitals established in the former slaveholding states. The register below, transcribed by Alana Thevenet, records the names...
Mar 6, 2017 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
The Freedmen’s Bureau provided many services to Freedmen and poor white refugees during its operations in the former slaveholding states. In the years between 1865 and 1872, the bureau established hospitals and provided inpatient and outpatient medical care to...
