Jun 4, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
no images were found When I started the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010, I established some rigid rules. Here are a few: 1) No sleeping in dwellings that are not in their original location. 2) No sleeping in dwellings that have been recreated. On Thursday, May 2, 2013,...
May 27, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
Source: Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910), Reel 23 Names of 166 USCT veterans who were paid bounties from 1866-1868 ~ Please...
May 2, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
The first military action of the United States Colored Troops in South Carolina was an expedition organized by Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, commander of the 1st SC Infantry (later redesignated 33rd USCT). From January 23 to February 1, 1863, the 1st South...
Apr 29, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Joseph McGill, Slave Dwelling Project [ngg_images gallery_ids=”100″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_horizontal_filmstrip” gallery_width=“500″ gallery_height=“500] I know for sure that I have spent nights in slave dwellings in...
Apr 16, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, Uncategorized
Year two would see many positive changes for the Behind the Big House Tour. One such change was adding school children, so on Thursday morning, April 11 local school groups were scheduled to visit the Hugh Craft House and slave dwelling. This was also an improvement...
Apr 12, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Gwine to de field, Hopkinson’s Plantation, Edisto Island, S.C. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862] Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11370 (digital file from original item, front) Rights...
Mar 28, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Today’s post on the Ancestors Page is a photo of an African American woman, perhaps an elder, seated with a young child in the front yard of 312 Gaston Street in Savannah, GA. The notation for the photo states that the picture was taken in 1939 or 1944. Please...
Mar 28, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Contact: Aurora Harris, Community Outreach Manager|aharris@preservationsociety.org |843.722.4630 Thomas M. Pinckney Alliance Reception March 13, 2013 Charleston, SC– The Preservation Society of Charleston will honor African American craftsmen and...
Mar 26, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress are an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The photographs were taken by field agents for three...
Mar 25, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter was written by James Perkins of Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC. Perkins, a veteran who served in Company K, 35th United States Colored Troops, was inquiring about bounty pay due him for his service from 1863 to 1866. Perkins asks that correspondence to...
Mar 24, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
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Mar 23, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This picture, taken some time after 1910, depicts African American employees of the American Sumatra Tobacco Company in Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida [1]. Formed by a merger of twelve growers in 1910, the American Sumatra Tobacco Company owned 34,000 acres of land...
Mar 22, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
In this note interfiled with rations requests written to Captain F. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, J. Calhoun Cain states that Freedman James Jenkins formerly belonged to his father. In the note, dated 11 July 1867 and written from Pinopolis, SC, Cain states...
Mar 22, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
no images were found The first stay for the Slave Dwelling Project in 2013 was a repeat stay at Hopsewee Plantation on Friday, March 1. Located on the North Santee River in Georgetown County, SC, my familiarity with the property and this being my 39th overnight stay...
Mar 21, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
These pictures, taken at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, were reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter, dated 26 Aug 1867, was written by W.E. Stoney to Captain F.W. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request rations for Charles McBride and Philippy Cordes, two elders living at Stoney’s plantation in Berkeley, SC. Stoney states that Charles...
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This remarkable letter, written in 1867 by Charles B. Lucas of Whitehall, SC to the Freedmen’s Bureau, names 3 generations of the African American Doctor family. In the letter, Charles Lucas writes to Captain Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request...
Mar 19, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Group of old folks at home, “Old Fort” plantation, Port Royal Island, S.C. / Photographed by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, S.O. [i.e. S.C.] Creator(s): Hubbard & Mix, photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1870] Medium: 1...
Mar 19, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Little tea pickers, who sang for President Roosevelt – Pinehurst Tea Farm, Summerville, S.C. Creator(s): Underwood & Underwood, publisher Date Created/Published: New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas: Underwood & Underwood, publishers,...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
The Brown family of St. Helena Island, Beaufort County, SC were photographed in June of 1939 by Marion Post Wolcott, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, an agricultural program mandated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist families during the...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Nursery at Elliott’s, Hilton Head, S.C. / photographed and for sale by H.P. Moore, Concord, N.H. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862 or 1863?] Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ;...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Two African American men sitting on stoop, Charleston, South Carolina Digital ID: (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g12119 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12119 Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-12119 (color film copy transparency)...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Negro home near Charleston, South Carolina Creator(s): Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Dec. Medium: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-050528-D (b&w film neg.)...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Children of the Oliver family, tenant purchase borrowers, Summerton, South Carolina Creator(s): Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Date Created/Published: 1939 June? Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-030495-M1...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: “Negro boy. Florence County, South Carolina” Creator(s): Cox, photographer Date Created/Published: 1938 Summer. Medium: 1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-015758-D (b&w film nitrate neg.) Rights...
Mar 18, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: “Chaplain George W. Williams, addressing students at a Negro elementary school in Indianapolis. Chaplain Williams comes from Sumter, South Carolina, where his father is a minister” Creator(s): Delano, Jack, photographer Date Created/Published: 1942...
Mar 10, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Mar 9, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission will hold it quarterly meeting on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at the South Carolina Archives and History Center, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia. Anyone interested in the preservation of African American...
Mar 1, 2013 | Florida Ancestors
FamilySearch Florida Collections (current to Feb 2013) Title Records Last Updated Florida, Births and Christenings, 1880-1935 20,227 10 Mar 2012 Florida, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 285,975 21 Apr 2012 Florida, Civil War Service...
Mar 1, 2013 | GA Ancestors
FamilySearch Georgia Collections (current to Feb 2013) Title Records Last Updated Georgia, Andersonville Prison Records, 1862-1865 Browse Images 8 Nov 2012 Georgia, Births and Christenings, 1754-1960 9,885 9 Mar 2012 Georgia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate...
Feb 28, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
So rarely does a record from Reconstruction actually connect freed people to a former slaveholder. When we find records like this we are so excited. We are very excited today, because we found another! This record is a part of the “Pre-Bureau” records for...
Feb 11, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: A J Hardee and...
Feb 10, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: A J Hardee and...
Feb 9, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: T A Groover DATE...
Feb 8, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Abner Groover DATE...
Feb 7, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: James Groover DATE...
Feb 5, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 Frames 331-333 TITLE OF...
Feb 4, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Labor Contracts Berkeley County, SC, Jan-May 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 MC 1910, Reel 89, Target 11 TITLE OF CONTRACT: E.H. Deas and the freedmen...
Feb 3, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Labor Contracts Berkeley County, SC, Jan-May 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 MC 1910, Reel 89, Target 11, Vol. 237 Frames 1332-1334 TITLE OF CONTRACT:...
Feb 2, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: [William Patterson...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 Frames 94-96 TITLE OF CONTRACT:...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 Frames 111-114 TITLE OF...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 Frames 334-336 TITLE OF...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts, Uncategorized
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 76, Target 4 Frames 421-424 TITLE OF...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 76, Target 5 TITLE OF CONTRACT: J. Rees Ford...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Georgetown Labor Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Wm. Rees Ford & freedpeople DATE OF CONTRACT:...
Feb 2, 2013 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Georgetown County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 77, Target 1 TITLE OF CONTRACT: J. Rees Ford...
Feb 1, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: John A Edmondson...
Feb 1, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Dollie Crawford...
Feb 1, 2013 | GA Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Savannah, Georgia Labor Contracts, 1865-1868 Records of the Field Offices for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1903, Roll 82 TITLE OF CONTRACT: R D Brown DATE OF...
