FORMER SLAVES. Freed slaves, if listed Some participants were unaware of R&R.coms existence or its vast trove of maps, and genealogical links. WebIn 1750 most Africans and African Americans slaving in North America labored in the dirt of the tobacco and rice plantations of South Carolina and Virginia. Updates: n In the 1860s, South Carolina proposed a law that would compel free blacks to select a master or leave the state. Richard Reid is president of the Orangeburg Historical and Genealogical Society. in the same State or County. His mother who died more than 50 years ago was a slave on a plantation near Bowman. We would fundamentally reject any cultural or individual explanation for widespread disparities of poverty, violence, school outcomes, wages, and wealth. By the 1830s, southerners were convinced that slavery was a positive good and should be defended at all costs. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm n 115 plantations in the northern part owned 10 or more slaves. In 1811 some 500 slaves, led by a mixed-race slave driver named Charles Deslondes, marched through Louisiana in military formation before federal troops captured them. Plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler (whose grandfather was one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the fugitive slave clause) sold over 430 slaves to satisfy his creditors. TERMINOLOGY. Re: Orangeburg Dantzler Slave Descendants. G., 41 slaves, page 438, MOORER, J. T.? n Slave ownership in the south was Joseph Pendarvis 41, George Robison 56, Elijah Wasden 71 and John Smith 75 slaves. There is no other book on slavery quite like it. Professional genealogist offers advice on tracing African-American roots, Needles and Threads: Piecing Together African American Families, Finding a Name: Why Probate Records are a Gold Mine for African Americans, Do not sell or share my personal information, Fugitive from the State (meaning they were a freedom seeker). task, but it is beyond the scope of this transcription. It is possible to locate a free person on the Orangeburg Slave Schedules were population schedules used in two U.S. Federal Censuses: The 1850 U.S. Federal Census and the 1860 U.S. Federal Census. Uncle Jim says he was born in 1844 making him 108 years old. I remember learning about slavery and being made to feel that it was something that happened in the Jurassic period like it was the dinosaurs, The Flintstones and slavery. n In 1865, the Orangeburgh Methodist Church had a substantial number of slave members. Plantation names were not shown on the census. Capital and resources were what allowed the slaveocracy of the South to continue to flourish. Due to variable film quality, handwriting They were intergenerational sites of torture and exploitation. WebThe Dantzler Plantation House is significant as an outstanding local example of mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival architecture with various later alterations and additions Smith, a journalist and a poet, was visiting the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana as part of his quest to understand the impact of slavery in America. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997). I dont operate under any pretense of objectivity. Please note that this collection contains sensitive information about enslaved people. slaveholder in each County. I would say that Native Americans should get reparations. Bethany Pace kneels at the simple stone monuments that mark the graves of slaves that were her kin, in Sweet Briar, Virginia, in 2015. Rusty Robinson, the co-founder of Roots and Recall, rarely provides public programs, but did have something to add to a genealogy discussion at the local library. Thanks. for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. 2023 Cable News Network. He owns her and he owns her children and yet is somebody who tries to convince himself that what hes doing is not as bad as what other people are doing, that he is benevolent slaver, that even though he knows what he is doing is wrong. It n The North fork of the Edisto included 6,731 whites and 4,529 slaves. Smith also visits such landmarks as Thomas Jeffersons Monticello plantation in Virginia and Goree Island in Senegal, a notorious slave-trading center. In 1854, a plantation house was constructed on the site from yellow long-leaf pine lumber carried by ship from Florida, transferred to barges, and towed up the San Bernard River. We cannot disentangle our rise to global economic superiority from the fact that millions of people worked for free for more than two centuries. A genuine curiosity was the governing force behind this book. The house, constructed ca. WebNo. 1846-1850, is a porticoed, two-story Greek Revival raised cottage of frame construction, set on a partially enclosed, brick pier foundation. Instead, the plantation displayed statuettes of impoverished, emaciated Black children. M653, Roll 1236) reportedly includes a total of 16,583 slaves, ranking it the ninth highest County total in the State and the It features a front portico. The plantations harrowing centerpiece, though, was what made Smith stop in his tracks. County, South Carolina census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave n In 1850, William Keitt owned 123 slaves, David McCord 138, Charles Thompson 259, Jacob Dantzler 161 and John Felder 285. n In 1860, slaves belonging to Rose Benjamin were baptized. Rates were $1.00 a night to sleep and 35 cents for a meal (, 1973 Frederick Connor Dantzler's daughter, Doris Dantzler Henry, inherited the property when her father died (, 1989 Doris Dantzler Henry died and left the home to her husband Tom Henry (, 2007 Michael and Doris "Deedee" Dantzler Henry Kullenberg were owners of Dantzler Plantation. n In 1778, the slaves of Col. Paul S. Felder loaded his guns during a fight with the Tories in the Revolutionary War, enabling him to kill more than 20 enemies. So when my grandfather was sitting on his grandfathers lap Im reminded that in the scope of human history, this was just yesterday. I'm Jacqueline Dantzler Liddy, born in Sumter, SC. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. census. We see this most famously through Thomas Jefferson. Their leaders were tortured and beheaded, with their heads posted on stakes as a warning to other slaves. The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly I believe that Black people should have reparations for the historical wrongdoings that Black people have been subjected to. But you say the American economy was built on the currency of human livestock. How was slavery crucial to the way this countrys economy grew? n Harry, Thomas and Nancy, the slaves of Timothy Darigan, were publicly baptized in 1854. n In 1758, the county paid John Geissendanner for slaves executed and Jacob Rump, the constable, for fees on trial of slaves. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County (actually shown as "District" on may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living A portrait of Civil War-era fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North in the mid-1860s. The full text of the nomination and additional photos are available at the SCDAH. Charleston County saw an increase in colored population of almost two thirds between 1860 Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in Orangeburg County, South Claim: A circulating list of nine historical "facts" about slavery accurately details the participation of non-whites in slave ownership and trade in America. The scene is one of many searing Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C. (iStock) Article. See other South Carolina Historic Houses. Simple fact is that some had it good and some lived under not-so-good conditions. Planted in a garden bed in front of the fence were the heads of 55 Black men impaled on metal rods, their eyes shut and jaws clenched in anguish. enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Look for his articles all during this month on The Times and Democrats special Black History Month pages on Tuesdays and Fridays. They were, in effect, selling their own children off into slavery. Black people were worth more than every bank, factory, and railroad combined. You are the visitor to this page. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. According to The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, in the section "Judaism in the Antebellum South" which begins at page 384:. Part of reparations is not only the reallocation of monetary or material resources, it is also the recalibration of our collective memory to truly understand what happened here. If we did come to terms with the impact of slavery, how do you think this country would be different? n In 1831, a slave named Myers was expelled from the Methodist Church. Hope isnt passive. After slavery, most of the balconies were torn down. States that saw W.?, 74 slaves, page 387B, WOLFE, Ellen & eight others, 50 slaves, page 391B, DANTZLER, O. M., & one other, 102 slaves, page 393B, MCCORD, Mrs. L.? Some of these former slaves may have been using the Please don't show this again. Webn In 1850, William Keitt owned 123 slaves, David McCord 138, Charles Thompson 259, Jacob Dantzler 161 and John Felder 285. n In 1860, slaves belonging to Rose Benjamin Some of the prominent family names were Russell, Thomson, McCord, Rump, Shuler, Zimmerman, Rickenbacker, Amaker, Keller, Zeigler, Staley Heatly, Hart, Darby and Hayne. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone, Richard Carroll Elementary evacuated; SLED searches; Bamberg school safe, Orangeburg County sheriff claims restaurant worker assaulted over drink; authorities seek IDs of suspects, Former NFL star Chad Johnson says he saved money by living inside Cincinnati Bengals stadium for 2 years, Attempted murder suspect faces drug charges; Orangeburg County sheriff: Like a 'pharmaceutical variety store, Off-duty Orangeburg officer saves mans life, Death of Orangeburg man leads DHEC to order changes at group home, When you love your people, they will love you back; Orangeburg County educators, support staff honored, S.C. 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WebThis memorial by Woodrow Nash at the Whitney Plantation commemorates an 1811 slave uprising after which its leaders were beheaded. Census data on African Americans in the of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages without a stamped and Counties, return to Home and Links Page. In South Carolina in 1860 there were 482 farms It happened centuries ago. WebDantzler Family Collection Slavery & Reconstruction A digital display of select historic materials associated with the Frederick Dantzler and Lewis Dantzler Family Collections. At that time, the spelling of this area was Orangeburgh.. Across the south, housing developments, schools and This database provides details about those persons, including age, sex, and color, but unfortunately, most schedules omit personal names. However, the data should be checked for the particular surname to see the extent of the matching. The plantation house is still standing, however, no outbuildings survive. Oral histories included an account from an enslaved woman who recalled how her master would come at night to rape her sister and den have de nerve to come round de next day and ask her how she feel.. I didnt own any slaves, and neither did my ancestors. With this in mind, one can safely conclude that blacks caring the above surnames are possibly connected. Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled! The mill began operation in 1913 as Southern Paper Company. Your generous donations allow us to continue to operate and grow R&R for this generation and many generations to come. It becomes this exercise in moral relativity where Jefferson can write in one document that all men are created equal and write in another that Black people are likely inferior to Whites in both body and mind where he can write one of the most important documents in the history of the Western world and also enslave over 600 people, his own children. can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number can be viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. It is very much a result of this history, whose legacy still shapes everything we see today. October 21, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. Sorry, you have Javascript Disabled! Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the significant increases in colored population during that time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for During the Civil War, a small band of Union soldiers approached the house. n Slave ownership in the north was William Bull 92, Alexander Gillon 106, Samuel Gourdin 126 and William Thomson 154. n In 1822, six whites and six slaves were expelled from the Methodist church. The rest of the slaves in the County were held by a total And so I am hopeful because there were people who came before me who were hopeful and enacted that hope through action, through the way they lived their lives and the decisions they made. All Rights Reserved. 2755 Vance Road at Bass Drive - at the corner of US 15 and SC 210. the census page), the number of slaves they held in the County where the slaves were enumerated and the first census page The following are varying descriptions of slave life events and some statistics in Orangeburg County: n In 1751, a gang of Indians that was going around killing horses and cattle abducted a slave boy from the house of John Geiger and threatened to kill his family. By the mid-16th century, African slavery predominated on the sugar plantations of Brazil. appreciated. Historic house in South Carolina, United States, U.S. National Register of Historic Places, "Dantzler Plantation, Orangeburg County (2755 Vance Rd., Holly Hill vicinity)". If the surname is found, they can then view the included 8,108 whites, 205 "free colored" and 16,583 slaves. and 1870, so likely that is where many went. A poster advertising a slave sale in 1863 in Frankfort, Kentucky. 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