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  1. The Price of Slavery
    date January 2, 1847map DARLINGTON, South Carolinatags Prices, African-Americans, Slavery

    To a group of slaves about to be sold to a new owner, the future is uncertain. Their new home may promise decent food and board, or it may mean the separation from their closest family members, abusive overseers, and grueling work that drives them to the brink of death. This is what thirteen slaves faced when they were sold on January 2, 1847 by John D. McCullough to Samuel W. Evans. The document promised...

  2. Sudden Jump in Southern Church Membership
    date 1822map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery

    After years of meetings focused on the business of dealing with church members who struggled with drunkenness or loose morals, the minutes of the Turkey Creek Baptist Church took a fairly drastic turn into the nineteenth century, showing records of meetings now consumed with the granting of fellowship to slaves.  Almost every entry in the mid-nineteenth century included some account of “a woman...

  3. 1876 Conservative Resurgence in South Carolina Makes an Appeal to Black Voters
    date September 16, 1876map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags Electoral Campaigns, Redemption, African American Suffrage, Civil Rights, Race Relations, Politics, Crime/Violence, African-Americans

    In the 1876 election, The Democratic Party in South Carolina overthrew Republican control of state government, resulting in what was called the “Redemption” of the state.  Using every means at their disposal, the Democrats employed paramilitary “rifle clubs”, violence, intimidation, and electoral fraud to reassert white, Democratic control over the state.  At the head of the party was wealthy...

  4. A Slave Reminisces
    date 1936 to 1938map Lafayette, Louisianatags African-Americans, Slavery

    Agatha Babino was born a slave of Ogis Guidry near Carenco, Louisiana.  She was at least 87 years old when she was interviewed by a member of the Depression-era WPA Federal Writers’ Project sometime between 1936 and 1938.  In a mere two pages of her recorded reminisce about her time as a slave, Babino addressed many of the topics common to a slave’s life. Babino described the plantation where...

  5. Regulating Freedpeople’s Marriages in South Carolina
    date 1866 to 1870map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Law, Government Laws, Politics

    In hopes of assimilating ex-slaves into life as freedmen, the Freedmen’s Bureau worked to legalize marriages and establish standards for the marriages of freedmen.  Such Marriage Rules were observed in South Carolina in 1866, when such matters were under the jurisdiction of the Freedmen’s Bureau.  The Marriage Rules, contained six sections that, outlined “the parties eligible for marriage,...

  6. A Walk With God
    date December 1, 1955 to December 20, 1956map Montgomery, Alabamatags Government, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Buses

    On February 23, 1956, more than two thousand African Americans filled the church from basement to balcony and overflowed into the street for a meeting to urge their followers to boycott the city’s buses.  This meeting was the result of resistance efforts that began when Rose Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white man on Thursday, December 1, 1955.   Months later...

  7. African American Families in the 18th Century
    date 1800map Montgomery, Kentuckytags Marriage, African-Americans

    In many states in the United States, African –American marriages were not legal. Since African Americans weren’t perceived the same as Whites they weren’t allowed the same rights. But marriage was a cycle of life it was scared ad honorable. This of course wasn’t ethically right, but Blacks were considered to be inferior to the Whites so they didn’t have control of the situation in the early...

  8. No Blacks in New County Jury Lists
    date July 12, 1935map Richmond, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Law, Juries

    “Negroes have not served on juries in North Carolina since the White Supremacy Campaign in 1898,” noted the Richmond County Journal.  Yet In 1935, commissioners faced a decision of the United States Supreme Court that African Americans could not be systematically excluded from jury lists. African Americans were excluded anyway. The Richmond County Journal stated that the Register of Deeds, Mr.Battley,...

  9. Penders Advertisment
    date December 20, 1933map Wake, North Carolinatags African American Women, employment, African-Americans

    The Pender’s grocery advertisement from the Raleigh Observer depicted a wealthy and very happy white family enjoying a lovely Christmas dinner. The family is being served dinner by a maid, that also appeared to be in a good mood in the advertisement. This advertisement was an illustration of the menial work black women had to do in the 1930s. Domestic jobs were usually the most common types of work...

  10. Student Demonstrations at Fayetteville State University
    date April, 1968 to 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Education, Protest

    The Raleigh Observer reported that by April 1968 the students at Fayetteville State University were outraged due to the lack luster condition of their campus. A small group of students seized control of the administration building and phone systems on Thursday. The students were all male upperclassmen. Dr. Jones, the college president was the first to discover the students and speak with them. According...

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