Mar 19, 2015 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Rations Lists (AKA Register of Destitutes): Lists of Elders By Plantation, Before 1870 Rations lists (sometimes labeled “Register of Destitutes,” “Register of Those to Whom Rations Were Issued,” etc.) are among the richest records in...
Aug 10, 2010 | LCA Main Blog
In March of 1866, Dr. E.A. Gibbes, former slaveholder and owner of a plantation in Colleton County, SC near the settlement of Adam’s Run, wrote to Lieutenant Jesse S. Craig of the 35th U.S.C.T. Infantry, outlining the terms of the labor agreement he had entered...
May 19, 2010 | LCA Main Blog
Every now and then one of those remarkable documents comes along – the ones that bridge the 1870 Divide and positively link a freed person with a surname to a former slaveholder. In this case we come close. The Freedmen's Labor Contract below...
May 3, 2010 | LCA Main Blog
So rarely do we see a document that bridges the 1870 divide by positively linking a freed person with a surname to the final slaveholder. When we do find a document that bridges that divide, we post it to our 1870 Brick Wall page. Here is the latest addition to that...
