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Slavery -- South Carolina

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Heyward and Ferguson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0092
Collection Overview The papers consist of family and business correspondence between members of the Heyward family. Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851) of South Carolina and his wife Henrietta Manigault Heyward (1769-1827) correspond with their sons Nathaniel Heyward (1790-1819) and William Manigault Heyward (1788-1820); their grandsons Nathaniel Barnwell Heyward (1816-1891), James Barnwell Heyward (1817-1886) and William Henry Heyward (1817-1889); and other relations regarding plantation provisions and rice planting...
Dates: 1806-1923
Found in: Special Collections / Heyward and Ferguson family papers

McNeil and Richardson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1162
Abstract The McNeil and Richardson families crossed paths and were united with the marriage of Jane McNeil and Toby Richardson in the latter portion of the nineteenth century. This collection documents both the McNeil and Richardson families. The bulk of the documents in this collection are legal notes regarding land ownership and acquisitions as well as legal will claims. There also are multiple booklets of family reunions of both the McNeil and Richardson families, which list their known...
Dates: 1904-2005, and undated; Majority of material found within 1930-1990
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / McNeil and Richardson family papers

The Story of South Carolina

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0005
Collection Overview

One complete typescript copy and one partial typescript copy of a study entitled "The story of South Carolina" with holograph corrections and annotations by the author, William Willis Boddie. Boddie highlights the leading individuals and major events in South Carolina history.

Dates: 1926
Found in: Special Collections / The Story of South Carolina

Peter H. Wood papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1131
Abstract

Peter Hutchins Wood (1943-), is a American historian who authored, "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion." Wood was a Humanities Officer for the Rockefeller Foundation before teaching Colonial American history at Duke University from 1975 to 2008, where he was named Professor Emertius of History. Wood wrote the original version of "Black Majority" as his PhD dissertation at Harvard University, which was published in 1974.



Dates: 1964-1974; Majority of material found within 1973-1974
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Peter H. Wood papers
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