Slave records -- South Carolina -- Charleston
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Blake tax return
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-042
Collection Overview
This collection consists of a return of taxable property belonging to Edward Blake in October 1794. It includes lots on Legare Street and South Bay Street along with plantations and slaves in St. Andrew's Parish, Ninety Six District and Saint Bartholomew's Parish.
Dates:
1794
Found in:
Special Collections
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
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
Found in:
Special Collections