US Black Heritage Project South Carolina Team

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The South Carolina Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of South Carolina.

Team Leaders: Michelle Detwiler, David Hamilton, Emma MacBeath

Team Members: Charles Uzzell, Eileen Robinson, Kate Schmidt, Carole Kirch

Contents 1 Goals 2 Cemeteries 3 One Place Studies 4 Plantations 5 Projects 5.1 Spring 2024 6 Resources 7 Slave Narratives 8 Census 9 Stickers 10 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on South Carolina:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from South Carolina regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in South Carolina, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Cemeteries

See South Carolina, African-American Cemeteries for existing categories. The categories are broken down by county, then by cemetery, profiles and free space cemetery pages respectively, designated with the number in each area currently on WikiTree.

Find A Grave currently lists 370 cemeteries that are specifically for African-Americans in South Carolina: African-American Cemeteries on Find A Grave

List of African-American cemeteries in South Carolina

Cemeteries in Charleston County, South Carolina (FamilySearch)

One Place Studies

• Edisto Island One Place Study

Plantations

• South Carolina Plantations Index
• Plantations in Freedmens Register of Land in South Carolina

Projects

• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in South Carolina, including developing profiles on WikiTree for people found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries as needed.
• Locating and documenting all plantations in South Carolina that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for slave owners and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in South Carolina.
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in South Carolina.

Spring 2024

1880 Census For Spring of 2024, our team is concentrating on Pickens County, as well as for Edisto, Charleston County, South Carolina. We are creating profiles for all African-American's on the 1880 census in those areas. Would you like to join us?

Other Specific areas of focus:

• Research Slave Owners for Charleston County, and specifically Edisto Island
• Make free space pages for all Slave Owners and Plantations on Edisto Island and in Charleston County
• Document all African-American cemeteries on Edisto Island by creating categories for them and profiles for all those laid to rest in the cemeteries.

Resources

See: African-American Resources for South Carolina for a list of history, photographical, map, and genealogical resources.

The South Carolina Digital Library Is a database of over 200,000 documents and photographs. Includes items such as the "Journal of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney's plantations, 1818-1819" which names his slaves.

African Names for Days of the Week

South Carolina Historic Properties Record

South Carolina Birth Death and Marriage

WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA: LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES and SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. Transcribed by Tom Blake, May 2001

Hilton Head Plantations

Ongoing Plantation Research South Carolina

Planters of Edisto Island (Contains list of slaveholders on Edisto Island in the 1860 US Census)

Manigault Plantation Journal

Slave Narratives

The WPA Slave Narratives for South Carolina need to be completed. See Freedmen Narratives for South Carolina. They should be categorized by the county the interview took place South Carolina Slave Narrative Categories

Census

• 1850 Slave Schedule Slave Owner Index for South Carolina
• 1860 Slave Schedule Slave Owner Index for South Carolina

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Edgefield County, South Carolina
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Edgefield County, South Carolina

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add a South Carolina sticker.

Place {{South Carolina Sticker|born in South Carolina}} below the African American sticker if they were born in South Carolina. Place {{South Carolina Sticker}} below the African American sticker if they lived in South Carolina for a large part of their life, but were not born there.

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
• US Black Heritage Index of Plantations
• Freedmen Narratives