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South Carolina established its first slave code in 1695. The code was based on the 1684 Jamaica slave code, which was in turn based on the 1661 Barbados Slave Code. The South Carolina slave code was the model for other North American colonies. [1] Georgia adopted the South Carolina code in 1770, and Florida adopted the Georgia code. [2]
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.
That individual, she learned, was Govan Mills, who according to an 1850 “slave schedule” owned more than 100 slaves in North Carolina and South Carolina.
The Negro Law of South Carolina was characterized by Howell Meadoes Henry as being: "An excellent summary of South Carolina slave law with court interpretations in narrative style, and with notes and comment and even recommendations as to desirable changes." [12] It provides examples of opposition to and violation of literacy law by white ...
The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (U of South Carolina Press, 2019). Quintana, Ryan A. Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina (U of North Carolina Press, 2018) online review [dead link ]. Rogers, George C. Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812)
That’s because crucial historical records — antebellum “slave schedules” — seldom included more than the age, race and sex of enslaved people. ... historian James D. Anderson wrote in ...
For most of the nineteenth century, slaves in South Carolina were born into slavery, not carried from Africa. By 1860, the slave population of South Carolina was just over 402,000, and the free black population was just over 10,000. At the same time, there were approximately 291,000 whites in the state, accounting for about 30% of the population.
Plantations in South Carolina (2 C, 52 P) Pages in category "History of slavery in South Carolina" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.