Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1849 May - 1913 October 29
Gender
- male
Occupations
Places
- Charleston (S.C.) (Place of Birth)
- Charleston (S.C.) (Place of Death)
- Marion (S.C.) (Residence)
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