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The Friendly Moralist Society Minutes (bound volume), 1841 - 1856, 1842 - 1849

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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

"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