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Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation is a set of two historic log slave cabins located on the campus of Francis Marion University at Mars Bluff, Florence County, South Carolina. There were originally 8 cabins, but only these two remnants survive. They were built before 1831, and occupied until the early 1950s.
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. University of South Carolina Press. Hill Edwards, Justene (2021). Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54926-4. LCCN 2020038705.
Some well-qualified public slaves did skilled office work such as accounting and secretarial services: "the greater part of the business of Rome seems to have been conducted through slaves." [469] Often entrusted with managerial roles, they were permitted to earn money for their own use, [470] and they were paid a yearly stipend from the ...
The extent to which slaves were used as a labour force in farming is disputed. It is certain that rural slavery was very common in Athens, and that ancient Greece did not have the immense slave populations found on the Roman latifundia. Corinthian black-figure terra-cotta votive tablet of slaves working in a mine, dated to the late seventh ...
Freedmen in ancient Rome existed as a distinct social class (liberti or libertini), with former slaves granted freedom and rights through the legal process of manumission. The Roman practice of slavery utilized slaves for both production and domestic labour, overseen by their wealthy masters. Urban and domestic slaves especially could achieve ...
Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become Roman citizens. After manumission , a slave who had belonged to a citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom ( libertas ), including the right to vote, though he could not run for public office. [ 18 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Florence County, South Carolina, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
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)