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Family on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina, circa 1862. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress and learnnc.org. The Fundamental Constitutions of 1669 stated that "Every freeman of Carolina, shall have absolute power and authority over his negro slave" [1] and implied that enslaved people would supplement a largely "leet-men" replete workforce.
Thomas Sumter (1734–1832), South Carolina planter and general, in the Revolutionary War he gifted slaves to new recruits as an incentive to enlist. [283] Mary Surratt (1823–1865), convicted conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government. She and her husband were slaveholders ...
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South. [6] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. There were economic and ethnic ...
Joshua John Ward, of Georgetown County, South Carolina, is known as the American who enslaved the most people in the early 1850s, [1] dubbed "the king of the rice planters". [ 2 ] In 1850, Ward enslaved 1,092 people; [ 2 ] Ward enslaved the most people in the United States before he died in 1853.
The Interior of South Carolina. A Corn-Shucking. Barnwell District, South Carolina, March 29, 1843" [14] in William Cullen Bryant's Letters from a Traveler, reprinted in The Ottawa Free Trader, Ottawa, Illinois, November 8, 1856 [15] List is organized by surname of trader, or name of firm, where principals have not been further identified.
The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction (Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1924), by a pioneer Black scholar. online. Tindall, George Brown. South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 (1952), online; Wikramanayake, Marina. A World in Shadow: The Free Black in Antebellum South Carolina (University of South Carolina Press ...
(Reuters) - * At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress aredirect descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people,representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% ofRepublicans.
He was born in St James Goose Creek near Charles Town and was the son of Thomas Smith and Sabina Smith, both of English descent; his father was a planter from Nevis in the British West Indies, while his mother belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent families of South Carolina, as a daughter of the landgrave, judge and important colonial leader Thomas Smith II and a granddaughter of ...