Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Freedmen’s Bureau Rations Lists (Register of Destitutes) Charleston District, Moncks Corner Sub-District Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M869, Reel...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: South Carolina, Secretary of State, Records Deposited with the Secretary. Abstracts of Voter Registrations Reported to the Military Government, 1868. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Record Group 213000, Series No. S 213103 Indexed by Alana...
Jun 4, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
no images were found When I started the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010, I established some rigid rules. Here are a few: 1) No sleeping in dwellings that are not in their original location. 2) No sleeping in dwellings that have been recreated. On Thursday, May 2, 2013,...
Apr 29, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Joseph McGill, Slave Dwelling Project [ngg_images gallery_ids=”100″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_horizontal_filmstrip” gallery_width=“500″ gallery_height=“500] I know for sure that I have spent nights in slave dwellings in...
Apr 12, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
Title: Gwine to de field, Hopkinson’s Plantation, Edisto Island, S.C. Creator(s): Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911, photographer Date Created/Published: [1862] Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11370 (digital file from original item, front) Rights...
Mar 26, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress are an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The photographs were taken by field agents for three...
Mar 25, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter was written by James Perkins of Jacksonboro, Colleton County, SC. Perkins, a veteran who served in Company K, 35th United States Colored Troops, was inquiring about bounty pay due him for his service from 1863 to 1866. Perkins asks that correspondence to...
Mar 22, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
In this note interfiled with rations requests written to Captain F. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, J. Calhoun Cain states that Freedman James Jenkins formerly belonged to his father. In the note, dated 11 July 1867 and written from Pinopolis, SC, Cain states...
Mar 21, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
These pictures, taken at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC, were reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This remarkable letter, written in 1867 by Charles B. Lucas of Whitehall, SC to the Freedmen’s Bureau, names 3 generations of the African American Doctor family. In the letter, Charles Lucas writes to Captain Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request...
