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Convict labor -- South Carolina -- Clemson.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Furman Family Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0270
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of a January 25, 1895 letter from Furman, Jr. at Clemson College to "Aunt Dora" concerning school and family news; January 31, 1896 news, including firings of and salary reductions for professors at the College (which include his father, Charles Manning Furman, Professor of English). There is one photocopy of an envelope addressed to Ann E. Furman, Yamasse, South Carolina and postmarked November 8, 1894. In addition, there is a photocopy of a...
Dates: 1894-1896, circa 1925

Alan Johnstone Papers

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Mss-0266
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of letters to the South Carolina Attorney General concerning the use of convicts to construct Clemson College. A letter dated June 10, 1891 from Johnstone, a member of Clemson College's Board of Trustees, to Y.J. Pope; a letter dated, March 10, 1891 from W.J. Talbert, Superintendent of South Carolina Penitentiary to Pope; and a letter dated, April 14, 1896 from R.W. Simpson, President of Clemson College's Board of Trustees to W.A. Barber.

Dates: 1891, 1896