Aug 6, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
150th Anniversary Commemoration, Assault on Battery Wagner By Joseph McGill “Approximately 200,000 African American men served in the Union Army and Navy during the American Civil War. For this particular stay, it was not much of a stretch for the Slave Dwelling...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
The Juneteenth holiday, one of the oldest Emancipation Day celebrations in the United States, commemorates the events of June 18 and 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, took possession of the state and...
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 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.)...
Sep 5, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: E.M. Clark...
Aug 3, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Samuel J....
Aug 2, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: S.E. King...
Aug 1, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Mrs. S.E....
Jul 31, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: D.B. Heyward...