Freedmen
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Green Clemson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0002
Scope and Content Note
Thomas Green Clemson's papers reflect his intellectual interests in mining, geology, scientific agriculture and the promotion of education; his cultured back-ground as an artist, art collector, linguist and diplomat; and his personal life as a plantation owner, businessman, husband and father. A pocket journal, 1832-1837, is the first piece of Clemson's writing in this collection. Mr. Charles R. Clemson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, donated this brief journal and its typed transcription to...
Dates:
1786 - 2000; 1844 - 1888
William G. Hinson Records
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0108
Scope and Contents
The collection contains five volumes of farm records of William Godber Hinson, James Island, Charleston County, SC. Three of the books are accounts with farm laborers, "Freedmen" and "Freedwomen," 1866-1868. Entries reflect net proceeds of cotton crops, amount due employers, sickness records, cash advances, and cost of rations. Individual accounts include those of Amelia Goodwin, Moses Brown, Amos and Sam Watson, Thomas Young, Jeffry Campbell, Israel Knights, Eve Gourdin and Francis Gadsen....
Dates:
1866-1881