Avery Normal Institute
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Craft and Crum families papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1102
Abstract
William Craft (1824-1900) and Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1891) were slaves who met on a plantation in Macon, Georgia. Unwilling to raise children in slavery, in December 1848 they devised a plan to escape to Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Ellen dressed as an invalid male, her arm in a sling to avoid writing (neither William nor Ellen could read or write) and face in bandages to obscure her feminine voice and lack of facial hair. William accompanied her as a servant. They arrived in Philadelphia on...
Dates:
1780-2007
Holloway family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1065
Abstract
James Harrison Holloway, compiler of the family scrapbook, collected materials in the early twentieth century to preserve a record of his family’s legacy as free prominent African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, from their arrival in the late eighteenth century. In the wake of Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow, Holloway, whose vocations ranged between preacher, postmaster, and harness maker, sought to assert his family's legacy against the economic, social, and political...
Dates:
1776-1977, undated
Filtered By
- Subject: African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 2
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 2
- Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
- Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- African American business enterprises 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
- African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African American slaveholders 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
- African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- African Americans -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
- Ambassadors -- Liberia 1
- Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
- Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
- Enslaved persons -- Georgia 1
- Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
- Free African Americans -- Social conditions 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
- Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
- Free Black people 1
- Fugitive slave law (1850) 1
- Fugitive slaves -- United States 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 1
- Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 -- Photographs 1
- Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
- Plantations -- Georgia 1
- Racially mixed people -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century 1
- Racially mixed people -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Real property -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- School buildings -- South Carolina -- Photographs 1
- Sea Islands -- Photographs 1
- Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- Wills -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
- scrapbooks 1 + ∧ less
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