May 1, 2016 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
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...
Aug 13, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Immediately following the Civil War, group labor contracts were the means by which the transition from slave to paid agricultural labor was made. After the Freedmen’s Bureau withdrew from the southern states, contract labor gave way to tenant farming and the...
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...
Jul 27, 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: Isaac P....
Apr 10, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
In the early 1900s, the Seashore Farmers’ Lodge No. 767 was a center of African American cultural life in the Sol Legare community on James Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. One of many mutual benefit societies in the Lowcountry, the Seashore...
