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1. • • 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.
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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 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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   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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   How did slaves get their names?

   • 3. Geographic Place Names: As a sort of corollary to the preponderance of “familiar” names derived from Anglo-European culture, slave owners in early South Carolina and other American colonies frequently applied geographic place names to enslaved people.

   Recall Their Names: The Personal Identity of Enslaved South Carolinians

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3. 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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4. 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.

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 2208675Carolina Slave Names: An Index to Acculturation - JSTOR

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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.

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.

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

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   May 16, 2018 · The Gullah people, also referred to as the Geechee, reside in Georgia and the low country of South Carolina within the United States. They are also located within the coast and the Sea Islands –...

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

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   Jul 27, 2019 · Inscoe himself studied naming practices among slaves in North and South Carolina and found the practices to be very similar. In nineteenth-century Carolina, Inscoe found few “purely African” names yet found naming practices to be strikingly similar to West African practices.