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1. www.archives.gov › charleston › namesManifests - Alphabetical by Slave Names | National Archives

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   Sep 19, 2017 · Click on each Slave name to view information on that voyage. These records are also available through the National Archives Catalog (National Archives Identifier 2767350). This page was last reviewed on September 19, 2017. Contact us with questions or comments.

   Slave Name	Ship	Age	Sex
   Abigail	Edgefield	34	Female
   Abraham	Hamburg	11	Male
   Andre	Edgefield	12	Male
   Antony	Edgefield	17	Male

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2. www.ccpl.org › charleston-time-machine › recallRecall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South ...

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   Oct 2, 2020 · West African names such as Binah, Cudjo, Quash, and many others appear in relatively small numbers among the surviving records in eighteenth-century South Carolina as the accepted and acknowledged names of enslaved people.

3. face2faceafrica.com › article › gullah-descendantsGullah, descendants of African slaves in South Carolina who ...

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   May 16, 2018 · Gullah/Geechee The Gullah are African Americans who live in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Beaufort Sea Islands…Via Nakeshia...

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5. lowcountryafricana.com › south-carolina-slaveholdersSouth Carolina Slaveholders - Lowcountry Africana

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   African American genealogy: South Carolina Slaveholders, Surnames A-M - plantation records, wills, probate records, estate records.

6. www.slaverebellion.info › indexAFRICANISMS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES

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   For instance, Africans arriving in South Carolina from the coastal communities of Africa generally spoke some form of pidgin or Creole English prior to coming to America. Many Angolans coming from the Congo-Angola areas spoke Portuguese.

7. lastroadtofreedom.org › 2019/07/27 › revisitingRevisiting Carolina Slave Names – Last Road to Freedom

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   Jul 27, 2019 · In nineteenth-century Carolina, Inscoe found few “purely African” names yet found naming practices to be strikingly similar to West African practices. Though he admits of diversity in such practices, he recognized some common denominators.

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   Are there any African names in South Carolina?

   • Perusing the records of early South Carolina, we find distinctly African names such as Arrah (sometimes rendered as Arrow), Dumby, Gola, Gomby, Guinea, Mimba, Mimbo, Minta, Minty, Noko, Renty, Rhina, Sambo, Soanon (a Malagasy name from Madagascar), Tenah, Wally, Yamma, Zamie, Zimba, Zimbo, Zinga, and many others, in a great variety of spellings.

   Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians

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   What happened to African names in South Carolina?

   • The frequency of African names in South Carolina records declined in the decades after the American Revolution, however. The Palmetto State briefly reopened the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the summer of 1783 and the spring of 1787, after which time the number of native-born Africans in the state gradually diminished.

   Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians

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   Did South Carolina enslaved people have names?

   • The enslaved people of early South Carolina bore a variety of names, many of which were not of their own choosing. Combing through documents from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we find a robust record of the personal names applied to many generations of people held in legal bondage.

   Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians

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   Are there any South Carolina slaveholder genealogies online?

   • Researching a slaveholder’s genealogy can be a time-consuming task, but fortunately, there are many genealogies for South Carolina slaveholders online. Here, we provide links to online genealogies of South Carolina slaveholders.

   South Carolina Slaveholders - Lowcountry Africana

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   Are enslaved people known as West African names?

   • West African names such as Binah, Cudjo, Quash, and many others appear in relatively small numbers among the surviving records in eighteenth-century South Carolina as the accepted and acknowledged names of enslaved people.

   Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians

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   How do I find enslaved ancestors in South Carolina?

   • The search for enslaved ancestors requires research in the records of slaveholding families. In order to identify records of interest, you must first examine the genealogy of slaveholding families. Researching a slaveholder’s genealogy can be a time-consuming task, but fortunately, there are many genealogies for South Carolina slaveholders online.

   South Carolina Slaveholders - Lowcountry Africana

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9. libguides.charleston.edu › cFamily History and Genealogy: African American Genealogy

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   Aug 12, 2024 · A number of manuscript collections in the holdings of Special Collections and the South Carolina Historical Society contain information about African American citizens. Use the catalog to search specific family, church, or organization names.