African-American Resources for South Carolina
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US Black Heritage Project Home Page
African-American Genealogy Resources
African-American Resources by State
US Black Heritage Project South Carolina Team
Links to online resources about black history in South Carolina:
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History and General Resources
- South Carolina Dept of Archives and History African American Genealogy; start here if new.
- Main Slaveholding Families of South Carolina
- South Carolina Dept of Archives and History example page of transcribed wills
- History of Slavery in South Carolina at Wikipedia
- Low Country Africana (https://lowcountryafricana.com/) - slaves in SC, GA, and FL
- Helsley, Alexia Jones, and Patrick McCawley. The Many Faces of Slavery (South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1999)
- SCIWAY: South Carolina's Information Highway
- South Carolina at LinkPendium
- SCGenWeb
- The Stono Rebellion 9 Sep 1739 at PBS
- https://www.activekidstime.com/Museums/details/638/Pendleton-District-Commission.html
- Pendleton is a older blanket term for the upstate area of SC, now including Oconoee, Pickens and Anderson counties, with Greenville & Abbeville counties next door. Also note that a small portion of SC near Lake Hartwell was ceded to Georgia in 1792.
- South Carolina Historic Properties Record
- History of the American Negro, South Carolina Edition archive.org
Resources by County
Abbeville County
See: African-American Resources for Abbeville County, South Carolina
Barnwell County
- Barnwell County Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders 1809-1813 and 1818-1841
Charleston County
- Charleston City Death Records (1821-1910): FamilySearch. Indexed Books, searchable by name and date. Includes: Burial [Cemetery Name], Name of deceased, Gender, Color, Condition [Free or Slave], Married or Unmarried, Age at Death, Cause of Death, Birth place, and Death place for all inhabitants of Charleston City starting January 1821. Early slaves identified by first name and name of owner. Images of original available (camera icon). Search Page link: FamilySearch
- Charleston County Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders 1860
Darlington County
Edgefield County
- Edgefield, South Carolina, U.S., Slave Records, 1774-1866 (Requires Ancestry.com account)
- FindAGrave list of Edgefield Cemeteries might be a mixed list.
- Edgefield County Newspapers and Obituaries
- Family Search, Edgefield African American Cemeteries not online
Greenville County
Laurens County
- Laurens County Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders 1825-1826 and 1837-1839
Slavery Resources
- Ongoing South Carolina Plantation Research
- Main Slaveholding Families of South Carolina
- South Carolina Plantations (.com)
- South Carolina at Sankofagen
- Lawton Slave Holder SC
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1780-1820
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1820-1860
- Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1860-
- Slaves Named in Marion County Wills, 1798-1855
- Fort Rose, Carolina Slaves Brought to Florida
- Slaves, Plantation of James Joyner Smith
- Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2002
- Compass Ships' Lists Inward Slave Manifests for the Port of New Orleans Roll 3, January-March 1822
- Williamsburg County Records
- NPS: Sullivan's Island, the African American Ellis Island
- An Archeological Investigation of Sullivan's Island Pest Houses
- Fold3 free images of Estate Inventories for Charleston, South Carolina, 1732-1872
- Carolina Census, 1850 Slave Schedules
- https://iaamuseum.org/
- The International African American Museum, opens in Charleston, Jan. 21, 2023.
- Aquila: Documenting Runaway Slaves Project
- Mulatto Diaries
- The Gullah, Rice Slaves
- Journal of Joshua Ward Plantation
- Middleton Place, Slave Schedules
- White Indians
- Aquila: Documenting Runaway Slaves Project
- Mulatto Diaries
- The Gullah: Rice Slavery
- Sierra Leonean American
- Middleton Place, Slave Schedules
- Thomas Middleton Plantation book 1734-1813
- NPS: Sullivan's Island, the African American Ellis Island
- American Indian Slavery in Carolina
Slave Markets
- Charleston Slave Mart Museum
- Slave Market, Atlanta, GA
- Slave Matket Loiusville, GA
- Slave Market, Fayettville, NC
- Montgomery, Alabama Slave Market
- Forks of the Road Slave Market, Natchez, Mississippi
Slave Resources
- Get a list of slaves for South Carolina (Click Get Profiles when you get to the WikiTree+ screen)
- USBH Index of Plantations by State
- Slave Narratives Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews, Vol XIV, South Carolina at Project Gutenberg
- Largest Slave Auction in American History at Lineages
- Slave Narratives at Hampton County, South Carolina Genealogy Trails
- Slave trade ledger of William James Smith, 1844-1854
First Hand Accounts and Other Reports
- Eyewitness to History Savannah Slave Auction of 1859
- PBS The Weeping Time, A Slave Aution in Savannah, GA
- Savannah and the Slave Business
- Unearthing the Weeping Time
- Slaves War - A Directory of Witnesses
- Sec of the Interior - Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization " any "Negroes, mulattos, or persons of color" found aboard vessels seized off the coast of Africa and relocate them to what is now known as Liberia."
- The Souls of African American Children: New Amsterdam by Joyce D. Goodfriend professor of history at the University of Denver, is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (Princeton, 1992)
- Slave to Free National Humanities Center; be sure to check out other sections of this web site.
Slave Cemeteries
- Note: Slave and free African Americans are typically both buried in the cemeteries listed below as freed men continued to work in the same area.
- Find A Grave, Slave Cemeteries
- South Carolina African American Cemeteries and Graveyards
- Drayton Hall Ashley River, SC dating from 1790
- McLeod Plantation Slave Cemetery South Carolina
- Find A Grave Middleton Place Plantation Slave Cemetery, SC
- Blackstock Slave CemeteryFort Mill, SC
- Laurel Grove Cemetery South slave burials
- Slave Burial Ground at Calhoun Square Savannah, Ga
- Christ Church Slave Cemetery St. Simon's, GA
- Sullivan Island Cemetery Coastal Georgia
- Black Swamp Cemetery Beaufort, SC
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050130104822/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3837/AfricanAmerican.html And it looks like the transcribed excerpts can be found here: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/142204-david-gavin-diary-1855-1873?offset=
Thanks for all you do! I just created a profile of an enslaved person for the first time, and they were in Spartanburg District. Very thankful for all the guidance and resource collection. Feel free to delete comment
edited by Jaymie Horak
Lucas, Gloria Ramsey, Compiler. Slave Records of Edgefield County, South Carolina (Edgefield County Historical Society, 2010) Ancestry.com (complete book)
Carole PS: I put this here because there is no more specific place to add it. Please move where you'd like.