See: African American Resources>Education > African American Universities & Colleges, American Slavery>Slave Records Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jessie Dorsey open the Denmark Industrial School, which later becomes Vorhees Industrial School and then Vorhees College, one of many examples of African-American self-help in education. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575298, Slaves at the Brick Hope Plantation of A D Graves, Berkeley, SC 1854 Indexed by Alana, Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Guerard, Bees Creek, Beaufort, SC, 1823 Indexed by Khalisa Jacobs, The Harlestons: Theodore D. Jervey The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. John Lynch was a Quaker described as progressive for his time in the 1780s, according to Chief Public History Officer Ted Delaney. Mathewes, Georgetown, SC, 1848, Slaves at Hickory Hill Plantation of Edith Mathews, Charleston, SC, 1796, 1867 Estate Inventory of John Raven Mathews: List of Enslaved People Freed in 1865, Slaves in the Estate of William Mazyck, Charleston, SC, 1863, Slaves at Indian Field Plantation, South Santee, Georgetown Co., SC, 1863, Slaves at Snee Farm Plantation, Charleston, SC, 1859, Slaves in the Estate of Mary McKewn, Oak Hill Plantation, Charleston, 1853, Sale of 106 Slaves in the Estate of Anne Middleton McUen, SC, 1851, Slaves at Brick Barn and Buckfield Plantations of Isaac McPherson, 1787, Enslaved Ancestors on 5 Plantations in the Estate of John McPherson, Beaufort and Colleton Counties, SC, Africans Noted, Enslaved Ancestors on 4 Plantations of James McPherson, Beaufort, SC, 1834, Slaves in the Estate of William Milland, Charleston, SC, 1860, Slaves at Little Edisto and Frogmore Plantations, Edisto Island, SC, 1858, Slaves on The Grove Plantation, , Charleston, SC, 1857, Slaves in the Estate of George Morris, in Families, Charleston, SC, 1835, 4 Generations of Slaves on Motte and Broughton Plantations, Berkeley, SC, 1842, Slaves in the Estate of Joseph James Murray, Edisto Island, SC, 1819, Grimball of Edisto Island: Mabel L. Webber, Grimball of Edisto Island (Continued): Mabel L. Webber, The Descendants of Col. , of South Carolina: Barnwell Rhett Heyward, The Descendants of Col. William Rhett, of South Carolina (Continued): Barnwell Rhett Heyward, Descendants of John Jenkins, of St. Johns Colleton: Mabel L. Webber, The Early Generations of the Seabrook Family: Mabel L. Webber, Early Generations of the Seabrook Family (Continued): Mabel L. Webber. 29-40. of new owners in South Carolina and Georgia, Christopher Johnson, one of the executors, was put to great expense, traveling upwards of ten thou-sand miles in executing the will. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575354, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of Isaac Fickling, Charleston, SC, 1834 Indexed by Felicia R. Mathis, 110 Slaves in the Estate of Eliza Flynn, Colleton County, SC, 1845 Indexed by Toni, Fraser Family Memoranda: A. S. Salley, Jr. He volunteers to help the Union Navy guide its ships through the dangerous South Carolina coastal waters for the rest of the war. In 1765 blacks outnumbered whites by more than two to one (90,000 to 40,000), and Charleston imported more slaves than did any other North American port. Although insufficient funds are available, this is the first such effort in the history of the state. The most extreme form of resistance, open revolt, was not common in antebellum South Carolina, but slave violence against whites was a common occurrence, despite the fact that slaves convicted of committing such acts faced extreme punishments ranging from death to severe whipping. This attitude is thought to be related to the sex ratio and the density of the black population. Agricultural College and Mechanics Institute near Orangeburg, which later grows into S.C. State. In 2020, Lynchburg, SC had a population of 430 people with a median age of 29.5 and a median household income of $38,170. 216-241. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. The Deep South used to be a hotbed of plantation activity and the slave trade. Though troubled by corruption, the commission does sell farms to about 14,000 African-Americans. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. 3, No. African-Americans, now comprising about sixty percent of the population, are relegated to less than five percent of the voters in South Carolina. As in Virginia, many slaves in seventeenth-century South Carolina came from the West Indies. Here, we provide links to online genealogies of South Carolina slaveholders. In order to identify records of interest, you must first examine the genealogy of slaveholding families. 127-140. Slaves in the Family. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569567, 213 Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Bond Ion, Charleston, SC, 1797 Indexed by Ann Mamiya, Izard of South Carolina: The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. Paul T Gervais, Charleston, SC, 1857, Slaves at the Exchange and Laurels Plantations, Paul T Gervais, SC, 1856, Slaves at Oakley Farm and in Charleston, Estate of Adelaide E. Gibbs, 1859, Slaves at the Rosemont Plantation of Adelaide Gibbs, 1860, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of John Gibbes, Colleton, SC, 1814, Slaves in the Estate of Theodore Gourdin, Berkeley County, SC, 1864, Slaves in the Estate of Theodore Gourdin, Georgetown and Williamsburg, SC, 1826, Slaves at the Brick Hope Plantation of A D Graves, Berkeley, SC 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Joshua Grimball, Edisto Island, SC, 1758, Slaves in the Estate of John Grimball, in Families, 4 Africans Noted, 1806, Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Guerard, Bees Creek, Beaufort, SC, 1823, Slaves in the Estate of George Paddon Bond Hasell, Charleston and Union, SC, 1819, 1,648 Slaves in the Estate of Nathaniel Heyward, Charleston, SC, 1851, Slaves in the Estate of Henry M. Holmes, Berkeley, SC, 1854, Slaves at Washington Plantation, Berkeley, South Carolina, 1860, 416 Slaves, Estate of Thomas Horry, Charleston and Georgetown, SC, 1820, Slaves at the Clydesdale Plantation of D E Huger, Beaufort, SC, 1855, Slaves in the Estate of John Huger, St. Lukes Parish, Beaufort, SC, 1853, Slaves in the Estate Sale of Alfred Huger, Jr., Charleston, SC, 1857, Slaves at Cat Island and Bluff Plantations of Alexander Hume, 1849, Slaves at the Cat Island Plantation of Thomas W. Hume, Charleston, SC, 1861, 213 Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Bond Ion, Charleston, SC, 1797, Estate Inventory of Richard Jenkins, Wadmalaw Island, Charleston District and St. Helena Island, Beaufort District, SC, 1857, Estate Inventory of Richard Jenkins, Wadmalaw Island, Charleston, SC, 1857, 117 Slaves in the Estate of Micah J. Jenkins, Charleston, SC, 1852, Slaves in the Estate of Benjamin J. Johnson, Charleston, SC, 1861, Sale of 101 Slaves in the Estate of B.F. Johnson, Charleston, SC, 1862, Slaves at Foot Point Plantation, Estate of D. G. Joye, Beaufort, SC, 1851, Sale of Slaves in the Estate of Daniel G Joye, Charleston, SC, 1853, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of Newman Kershaw, Charleston, SC, 1841, Slaves in the Estate of Mitchell King, Charleston, SC and Chatham, GA, 1863, Slaves in the Estate of Mary LaRoche, Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island, SC, 1842, Slaves at the Farmfield Plantation of Margaret Laurens, 1859, Slaves at the Point Comfort Plantation of Keating S Laurens, Charleston, SC, 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Thomas Legare, Charleston and Orangeburg, SC, 1843, Slaves in the Estate of Aaron Loocock, Richland and Charleston, SC, 1794, Inventory & Division of Slaves in the Estate of James Lowndes, Colleton, SC, 1839, Sale of 96 Slaves in the Estate of Edward Lowndes, Charleston, SC, 1853, Slaves at Hopsewee Plantation, Santee River, Georgetown, SC, 1854, African Children in the Estate of James Mackie, Charleston, SC, 1806, Slaves at the White Oak and Ogilvie Plantations of Joseph Manigault, Georgetown, SC, 1844, 153 Slaves in the Estate of Francis Marion, Berkeley, SC, 1826, Division of Slaves in the Estate of Francis Marion, Charleston, SC, 1833, 227 Slaves in the Estate of John T. Marshall, Charleston, SC, 1860, Slaves in the Estate of Robert Martin, Barnwell District, 1853, 271 Slaves in the Estate of Wm. However, a failed strike effort by cotton pickers a year later marks the decline of this self-help group. This transcription includes 114 slaveholders who held 20 or more slaves in Clarendon County, accounting for 6,163 slaves, or about 72% of the County total. was a poet, civil rights activist, teacher, librarian, wife, mother and gardener who lived in Lynchburg during the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575281, Captain William Capers and Some of His Descendants: A. S. Salley, Jr. The year was now 1817, and John, now along in years, stood at the site of his first ferry, looking fondly at Lynchburg's first toll bridge, which had replaced the ferry five years prior. 9, No. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Lynchburg, SC grew from 375 to 430, a 14.7% increase and its median household income grew from $22,625 to $38,170, a 68.7% increase. 3 (Jul., 1904), pp. However, two house servants tell their masters before the planned date. The self-sufficient farming community of Promised Land is formed on land in Greenwood County bought from the S.C. Land Commission. . The following information is provided for citations. Tanglewood Plantation, also known as the Ellison Durant Smith House and as Smith's Grove Plantation, is a historic plantation home located in Lynchburg, South Carolina.In 1747, King George II granted the almost 5,000-acre tract of land to Arthur Smith, who moved here from Smith Island, North Carolina. Chisholm Genealogy: Being a Record of the Name from A. D. 1254; with Short Sketches of Allied Families: Slaves in the Estate of Alexander Robert Chisolm, SC and GA, 1827, 206 Slaves in the Estate of James Clark, Edisto Island, SC, 1820, 272 Slaves in the Estate of Solomon Clarke, Charleston, SC, 1851, Slaves at the Raft Plantation of John Clarkson, Wateree River, Richland, SC, Slaves in the Estate of John A. Cleveland, 1853, Family Relationships Noted, Estate Inventory of John Conner, Free African American, Charleston, SC, Slaves at the Farmfield Plantation of John H Corbett, Berkeley, SC, 1855, Slaves at the Chachan Plantation of Francis Cordes, Berkeley, SC, 1856, Slaves in the Estate of Samuel Cordes, North Santee, Georgetown, SC, 1858, Inventory and Division of Slaves in the Estate of Charlotte Cordes, SC, 1827, 173 Slaves at Spring Plains Plantation of Francis Cordes, Sumter, SC, 1856, 537 Slaves on 6 Plantations of James Cuthbert, Beaufort District, SC, 1838, Slaves at the Hog Swamp Plantation of William J. Dennis, Berkeley County, SC, 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Samuel Dubose, Charleston, SC, 1859, Slaves in the Estate of William Edings, Colleton and Beaufort, SC, 1836, Slaves in the Estate of William Edings, Beaufort County, SC, 1859, Slaves at the Spring Island and Pineland Plantations of the Edwards Family, Beaufort, SC, Sale, 93 Slaves and 3 Plantations of Alexander England, Colleton, SC, 1850, Slaves at Richfield Plantation, Estate of Henry Faber, Charleston, SC, 1840, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of Isaac Fickling, Charleston, SC, 1834, 110 Slaves in the Estate of Eliza Flynn, Colleton County, SC, 1845, Inventory and Division of Slaves, Estate of Benj. In fact, in their Declarations and Proposals to all that will Plant in Carolina (1663), the Lords Proprietors had not mentioned black slavery, merely offering land under a headright system for every servant transported to the Carolina coast. One historian suggested that early South Carolina was effectively bilingual, with slaves speaking a patois or dialect that masters could not understand. South Carolina's total population in 1860 was just over 700,000 - and of that, 57% were slaves owned by some 26,000 white Americans, the highest percent in the country at the time according to . The Howard School is opened in Columbia. By the age of ten or twelve they were fully initiated into the world of adult work, although they were not expected to do the work of a full hand until about age sixteen. Over time, slaves negotiated rights and customs that allowed them to build close-knit communities and develop family bonds. Roughly 100 enslaved Africans, led by "Jemmy," capture firearms about 20 miles south of Charles Town, and attempt to rally more people to join them. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575005, The Colleton Family in South Carolina: The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. Race mixture occurred in every colony where people of different races met. Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. 3. This bridge was but one symbol of growth that had occurred since Lynchburg had been . Lynchburg had a "decentralized" slave market, which meant auctions took place all over the city. Lynchburg had become a fully incorporated town in 1805. Getting the Most Out of the National Archives Catalog Suzanne Isaacs and Meredith Doviak Community Managers for the National Archives Catalog National Archives at College Park, MD 2 11 a.m. Federal Records that Help Identify Former Slaves and Slave Owners Claire Kluskens Middle Tennessee, where tobacco, cattle, and grain became the favored crops, held the . State Rep. Jermaine L. Johnson, (D-Dist. These fields required the building of massive dikes, levees, and canals by hand with picks and shovels, working in the mud with snakes, alligators, and other vermin. In 1996 President Clinton awarded him his West Point Commission posthumously. He loses this match when he hits his head on the ring post and fractures his skull. A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new. 6 Homes For Sale in Lynchburg, SC. Where there was a great disproportion of blacks to whites, black concubinage seemed to be more often acceptable. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Calling all Citizen Archivists! 6, No. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. These surroundings could not help but affect the perceptions and attitudes of white South Carolinians, and these and other circumstances relate them more closely than other British North Americans to their compatriots in the West Indies. The band formed by Jenkins to help support the enterprise becomes famous, makes European tours, and produces many professional musicians. 2, No. This process could be seen clearly in South Carolina, where people who settled the upcountry did not have the wherewithal to compete in the coastal rice economy. Many runaways fled temporarily, hiding close by with the support of the slave communities, in order to escape punishment or to protest actions taken by their masters. 1 (Jan., 1905), pp. Blackwater Creek Trail. [javascript protected email address]/*