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Oct 2, 2020 · 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.
Aug 1, 2016 · The expansion of slavery throughout the state led to the full maturity of the slave society in South Carolina. By 1860, 45.8 percent of white families in the state owned slaves, giving the state one of the highest percentages of slaveholders in the country.
Notable slave uprisings in South Carolina history included the Stono Rebellion (1739), [29] the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy (1822), [30] and the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849). While few whites died at the hands of enslaved people, the revolts led to more restrictive policing of slavery.
Oct 5, 2020 · A 1738 South Carolina notice for a runaway enslaved man known as Sugar Candy. The enslaved people of early South Carolina bore a variety of names, many of which were not of their own choosing.
This spreadsheet combines two inventories of people enslaved by Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828) at Fairfield plantation on the Santee River and Auckland plantation on the Ashepoo River, as well as Pinckney’s personal residences.
By 1740, African Americans made up two thirds of South Carolina’s population. That year also marked two firsts in South Carolina: the enactment of a more comprehensive slave code, and the enactment of a law curtailing the slave trade.
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Throughout the colonial period, as many as 15 to 20 percent of the slaves in the two Carolinas had African names. A wide variety of names like Quamino, Musso, Cush, Footbea, Teebee, Banabar, Gimba, Ankque, and Simba appear occasionally on early slave lists, but none of these survived for long.