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Slave pass for Grace

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-111
Collection Overview

The document is a slave pass written by Isaac Riddell for an enslaved person named Grace. The pass gives Grace permission to sleep in Pattan's Lot from October 3, 1849 until January 3, 1850.

Dates: 1849 October 3

Slave passes for Mack and Ellack

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-040
Collection Overview

The folder contains two slave passes written by Sarah H. Savage and dated 1843. One pass gives an enslaved person named Mack permission to sleep in Bedon's Alley. The other pass, which has been penned through, gives an enslaved person named Ellack permission to sleep in Stoll's alley for three months.

Dates: 1843, undated

John Torrans letters

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-081
Collection Overview A letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose recommends that Rose buy the brigantine Industry lying at Eveleigh's Wharf, "that she will do well to go to Suranam" [Surinam]. A postscript headed "Distillery Monday Morning" asks Rose to tell Forbes that "one of the Negros is run away." The second letter (penciled note on cover reads "Charleston, S.C. List of Negros to be Mortgaged") from Torrans to Rose states he has sent a bond and mortgage bought at Well's Shop, but "did not know how many...
Dates: approximately 1775

William Saxon Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1038
Abstract

The William Saxon Wilson papers mostly consists of business cards, invitations, event programs, broadsides, and various ephemera created in his business, The Sax Print Shop, which document social, church, educational, and other aspects of African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dates: 1913-1983; Majority of material found in 1920-1982

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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 19
Special Collections 5
 
Subject
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 13
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 5
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 4
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religion 3
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 3
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 3
African American Episcopalians 2
African American businesspeople -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African American fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- Sources 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- To 1863 2
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 2
Architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Church records and registers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Hospital Workers' Strike, Charleston, S.C., 1969 2
Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 2
South Carolina -- History -- 1865- 2
Taxation -- South Carolina -- Charleston 2
administrative records 2
clippings (information artifacts) 2
correspondence 2
photocopies 2
Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
African American architects -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American barbers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American business enterprises 1
African American business enterprises -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American churches 1
African American churches -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
African American civic leaders -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American clergy -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American college teachers 1
African American elementary schools -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fraternal organizations 1
African American fraternal organizations -- 20th century -- Photographs 1
African American men -- Societies, etc. -- History -- 20th century 1
African American nurses -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American nursing schools 1
African American photographers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American physicians -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American political activists -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American radio stations -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American slaveholders 1
African American teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American universities and colleges 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Intellectual life 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- History 1
African American women -- South Carolina -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs 1
African American women teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Canada 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Civil rights -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History 1
African Americans -- Education -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- History -- To 1863 1
African Americans -- Race relations 1
African Americans -- Social conditions -- South Carolina -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Statistics, Vital 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- History -- 20th century 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) -- Social life and customs 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Port Royal -- History 1
Antislavery movements -- United States 1
Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Boy Scouts 1
Buildings -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Businessmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 20th century 1
Cannonborough-Elliottborough (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Cemeteries -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Charities -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
Charleston Neck (S.C.) 1
Civil rights movements -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Civil rights workers -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 20th century 1
Community health services -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Community health services -- South Carolina -- Johns Island (Island) 1
Contractors -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
DeReef Court (Charleston, S.C.) 1
DeReef Park (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century 1
Fraternal organizations -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Photographs 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions 1
Free African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
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Names
Avery Normal Institute 7
Avery Research Center 3
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Charleston, S.C.) 3
Centenary United Methodist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
DeCosta family 2
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 2
Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (Charleston, S.C.) 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charleston Branch (Charleston, S.C.) 2
African Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Allen University 1
Allen, William Francis, 1830-1889 1
Allison, C. FitzSimons (Christopher FitzSimons), 1927- 1
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1
Alston, Addie Middleton 1
Anderson, Leroy Frederick, Dr., 1916-1989 1
Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture 1
Banks, Anna DeCosta, 1869-1930 1
Baskervill Ministries (Pawleys Island, S.C.) 1
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) 1
Bishop England High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Brown, Alphonso 1
Brown, J. Arthur, 1914-1988 1
Brown, Millicent E. 1
Caffey family 1
Carolina Youth Development Center 1
Catholic Church. Diocese of Charleston (S.C.) 1
Century Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Century Fellowship Society Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Charleston County Economic Opportunities Commission 1
Charleston County School District No. 20 (S.C.) 1
Citizens and Southern National Bank 1
Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987 1
Clyburn, James 1
Cohen, David Joseph 1
College of Charleston. Governor's School 1
Coming Street YWCA (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Committee on Better Racial Assurance 1
Conroy, John F. 1
Constantine, Augustus Edison, 1898-1976 1
Craft family 1
Craft, Ellen 1
Craft, William 1
Crump family 1
DeCosta, Emily, 1923-2011 1
DeCosta, Herbert A., Jr., 1923-2008 1
DeCosta, Herbert A., Sr., 1894-1960 1
DeReef family 1
DeReef, Joseph, 1802-1876 1
DeReef, Richard Edward, 1798-1876 1
Deweese family 1
Drago, Edmund L. 1
Dulaney, W. Marvin, 1950- 1
Elgin Association 1
Elgin Society 1
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Faith Memorial Mission (Georgetown, S.C.) 1
Felder's Barbershop (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Florida State University 1
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881 1
Free Dark Men of Color Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Friendly Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864 1
Gourdine, Julia Alston 1
Grant, Henry Lacy, 1925-1990 1
Graves, J. Michael (James Michael), 1915-1996 1
Guilford College 1
H. A. DeCosta Company 1
HADCO Realty Company 1
Haines Normal and Industrial Institute 1
Harrison, Armistead, 1893-1985 1
Harrison, Helen Evangeline Banks, 1898-1985 1
Higgins family 1
Holloway family 1
Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913 1
Howard University 1
Immaculate Conception High School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Immaculate Conception School (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Industry (Ship) 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
Kelly family 1
Kelly, Anna D., 1913-2007 1
King, William, 1812-1895 1
Kinlaw family 1
MacPhelah Cemetery (Charleston, S.C.) 1
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Charleston Chapter. 1
Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library 1
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 1
McClennan, Alonzo, 1855-1912 1
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Charleston, S.C.) 1
McFall, Thomas Carr, 1908-1969 1
Methodist Episcopal Church 1
Midway Company, Inc. 1
Miller, Mary S. 1
Minor's Moralist Society 1
Morris Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.) 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
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