Woodlawn Plantation House

Woodlawn Plantation House, Berkeley County, SC
Historic American Buildings Survey, www.loc.gov

Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts were some of the earliest records which listed former slaves with newly-chosen surnames.

These records, which predate the 1870 census by several years, can provide clues for breaking through the 1870 Brick Wall by connecting census records with surnames to plantation journals with first names only.

Lowcountry Africana Co-Administrator Alana Thevenet has transcribed labor contracts for Berkeley County, SC. Here you will find records for slaveholder surnames beginning with the letter “N.”

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Freedmen’s Labor Contract
Berkeley County, SC, 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 62, Target 3

TITLE OF CONTRACT:

James R. Noble & Calvin Tyson, freedman

DATE OF CONTRACT:

March 20, 1866

PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:

Berkeley County

South Carolina

SC

Mount Pleasant, S.C.

Fishbrook Plantation

NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS

Calvin Tyson

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Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Berkeley County, SC, 1868
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 63, Target 2

TITLE OF CONTRACT:

J.L. Nowell and the Freedmen & women

DATE OF CONTRACT:

March 2, 1868

PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:

Berkeley County

South Carolina

SC

Belle Vue Plantation

NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS

Samuel Flagg, Foreman
Joe Bennett
Amos Bennett
Mary
Fanny Flagg
Hanibal Maxwell
Sylla Manigault
Lizzy Hadwell
Stepney Manigault
Lucy Ford
Libby Camel
Aaron Flagg
Charles Campbell
Betsy Campbell
Ned Hinds, carpenter
Peter Alston
Hannah Alston
Ria Murray
Isabella
C(illegible) Wells
Jane Wells
Romeo Maguire
Sukey Maguire

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