Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.)
Organization
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
"Chart: Members and Applicants to the Friendly Moralist Society", 1841 - 1856
File — Box 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston;" photocopied transcripts. Includes "names, residence, religious and social affiliations, relations, slaves (enslaved if held in Charleston County only), real estate, taxable value of property/taxes, and notes." Pages 312-345.
Dates:
1841 - 1856
Edmund Lee Drago collection
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract
Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates:
1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991
Friendly Moralist Society records
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1009
Abstract
The Friendly Moralist Society was a benevolent society, established in Charleston South Carolina, 1838 for free men of color (mulatto or mixed race). The group served the community by providing burial aid, purchasing plots and assisting during funerals, for those in need. The organization also worked to provide charitable assistance to needy widows and orphans of deceased members. Each member was entitled to certain rights of membership, namely financial assistance in times of illness or...
Dates:
1841-1856, and undated
Manuscript: "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston," pages 126-209, 1848 - 1853
File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Photocopied transcripts.
Dates:
1848 - 1853
Manuscript: "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston," pages 210-251, 1853 - 1856
File — Box 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Photocopied transcripts.
Dates:
1853 - 1856
Manuscript: "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston," pages 252-299, 1841 - 1856
File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Photocopied transcripts.
Dates:
1841 - 1856
Manuscript: "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston: The Proceedings of the Friendly Moralist Society with Supporting Documents" , 1841 - 1848
File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Photocopies pages of "Proceeding of the Friendly Moralist Society;" cover and content pages; holds pages 1-125.
Dates:
1841 - 1848
The Friendly Moralist Society Minutes (bound volume), 1841 - 1856, 1842 - 1849
Item — Box 1
Scope and Contents
Includes sections with notes regarding members attendance and reasons for missing meetings. It also documents amount fined members for being absent. The proceedings are recorded by the elected secretaries and detail the meetings. Highlights include Annual Day festivities, induction of new members, and meetings. Minutes reveal the working of the Society and its role in providing burial aid and financial support to widows and orphans. Also explored is the intra-racial strife between free...
Dates:
1841 - 1856; 1842 - 1849
"The Rules and Regulations of the Friendly Moralist Society", undated
File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From "Free Black Benevolence in Antebellum Charleston;" photocopied transcripts, pages 300-310.
Dates:
undated
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- Archival Object 7
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- Free Black people 7
- manuscripts (documents) 7
- photocopies 6
- transcripts 6
- financial records 2
- minutes (administrative records) 2
- African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American educators -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- Race relations 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Oral histories 1
- Photographs 1
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- administrative records 1
- annual reports 1
- articles 1
- charts (graphic documents) 1
- clippings files 1
- doctoral dissertations 1
- essays 1
- interviews 1
- manuscripts for publication 1
- masters theses 1
- newspapers 1
- reports 1
- rules of procedure 1
- school yearbooks 1
- typescripts 1
- wills 1 + ∧ less
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