Charleston County, South Carolina African Americans

United States South Carolina  Charleston County  African Americans

See also:


 * United States African Americans
 * South Carolina African Americans

Slavery
Charleston District maintained records of bill of sales of negro slaves from 1799 up through the Civil War. These records have been microfilmed:.

State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books for the City of Charleston are kept at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Many years between 1811 and 1860 have been microfilmed:.

Charleston, S.C. Slave Manifests (Inbound) (National Archives at Atlanta)


 * Birnie, C.W. "Education of the Negro in Charleston, South Carolina, Prior to the Civil War," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan. 1927):13-21. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Durden, Robert F. "The Establishment of Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church for Negroes in Charleston," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Apr. 1964):63-84. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Laurens, Henry. A South Carolina Protest Against Slavery: Being a Letter from Henry Laurens, Second President of the Continental Congress, to His Son, Colonel John Laurens; Dated Charleston, S. C., August 14th, 1776. Now Published from the Original. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1861. Digital version at Internet Archive.
 * Rumph, Thedoshia Juanita Harvey. Hattie Garrett, Born a Salve [i.e. Slave] in Charleston, S.C. Migrated to and Died Free in Edgefield, S.C. Pemberton, N.J.: T.J.H. Rumph, 1999.
 * Morgan, Kenneth. "Slave Sales in Colonial Charleston," The English Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 453 (Sep. 1998), pp. 905-927. Digital version at JSTOR ($).

For a white perspective on the religious education of slaves in Charleston during the final decades before the Civil War, see:


 * Proceedings of the Meeting in Charleston, S.C., May 13-15, 1845, on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes, Together with The Report of the Committee, and the Address to the Public. Charleston, S.C.: B. Jenkins, 1845. Digital version at Google Books.
 * Thornwell, J.H. The Rights and Duties of Masters. A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of a Church, Erected in Charleston, S.C., For the Benefit and Instruction of the Coloured Population. Charleston, S.C.: Steam-Power Press of Walker &amp; James, 1850. Digital version at Google Books.

Free blacks

 * Cole, Jennifer, comp. Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina Black Deaths 1871-89 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Available at Ancestry ($).
 * Fitchett, E. Horace. "The Origin and Growth of the Free Negro Population of Charleston, South Carolina," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Oct. 1941):421-437. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Fitchett, E. Horace. "The Status of the Free Negro in Charleston, South Carolina, and His Descendants in Modern Society: Statement of the Problem," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct. 1947):430-451. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Fitchett, E. Horace. "The Traditions of the Free Negro in Charleston, South Carolina," The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Apr., 1940):139-152.
 * Harris, Robert L. "Charleston's Free Afro-American Elite: The Brown Fellowship Society and the Humane Brotherhood," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Oct. 1981):289-310. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. Free online edition. [Includes information about the following pre-1820 Charleston County free black families: Anderson, Baldwin (intro), Bryan, Bunch, Cole, Collins, Cumbo, Deas, Demery, Driggers, Eady, Frost, Garden (see also intro), Gardner, Gibson, Hammond, Holman, Hunt, Jackson, Kersey, Matthews, Miller, Pendarvis, Raper, Rollison, Scott, Taborn, Tann, Webb, Wilson.]
 * Heinegg, Paul. "'Other Free' Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census, by County," Free African Americans.com. [Includes free blacks in St. Bartholomew's Parish, St. George's Parish, St. James Santee Parish, St. John's Parish, St. Phillip's and Michael's Parish, and Charleston District.]
 * Kennedy-Haflett, Cynthia. "'Moral Marriage': A Mixed-Race Relationship in Nineteenth-Century Charleston, South Carolina," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 97, No. 3 (Jul. 1996):206-226. Digital version at JSTOR ($).