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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1849 May - 1913 October 29

Gender

  • male

Occupations

Places

Topics

Languages Used

  • English

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

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