Dec 31, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
On December 23, 1865 the South Carolina Leader, an African American newspaper based in Charleston, SC posted the following announcement [1]: Barbecue — January first, Emancipation Day, will be celebrated by a procession of the different organizations of the...
Mar 7, 2012 | LCA Main Blog
In 1821, Rebecca Perry Drayton, widow of John Drayton of Drayton Hall, petitioned the House of Representatives, seeking permission to free three family slaves named Abigail, Mahala and Rebecca. Abigail was described as “an old family nurse … now between...
