Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held in Orangeburg County, South When researching enslaved individuals, the slave schedules are most helpful when used in conjunction with the 1870 U.S. Federal Census, the U.S. Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, wills, and probate documents. It is very much a result of this history, whose legacy still shapes everything we see today. 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. Along the way he speaks with tour guides, descendants of slaves, tourists and even members of a neo-Confederate group who tell him that slavery wasnt the main cause of the Civil War. In South Carolina in 1860 there were 482 farms urchinTracker(); South-Carolina-Plantations.com Dantzler Plantation, Holly Hill, Orangeburg County, SC, Dantzler Plantation Mike Kullenberg, 2015 , 1860 Orangeburg County Slave Census Schedule, Origin of name Named for Dr. Lewis Dantzler, Other names Four Hole; SunnySide House (, 1846 Dr. Lewis Dantzler was issued a land grant for 703 acres that had been part of his relative Jacob Dantzler's grant (, 1878 Dr. Lewis Dantzler died and left the plantation to his son, Irvin H. Dantzler (, 1920 Irvin H. Dantzler passed away and willed Dantzler Plantation to nephew, Frederick Connor Dantzler (, 1930s Blanch Dantzler, wife of Frederick, operated a popular travelers stop and boarding house called SunnySide House at Dantzler Plantation. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Capital and resources were what allowed the slaveocracy of the South to continue to flourish. Researchers seeking information about slave owners may find slave schedules useful because of the specific information they provide about slave owners holdings. appreciated. n In the North fork, 487 of the 1,309 whites owned slaves. In 1850, the slave census was also separate from the free census, but in earlier years it was a part of the free AFLLC and info@rootsandrecall.com, 4175 Booney Road, Rock Hill, S.C. 29730, U.S. Patented info@rootsandrecall.com. 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. There was an investment across the country in the perpetuation of slavery. and Counties, return to Home and Links Page. All Rights Reserved. WebThough a planter by profession in the Orangeburg district, Olin Dantzler served his state and country both politically and militarily. Im deeply invested in the subject matter of this book, which is why I spent four years writing it. Following the holder list is a separate list of the surnames of You are the visitor to this page. can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number n In the South fork, 259 of the 1,078 whites owned slaves. The information on surname matches of 1870 African Americans and 1860 slaveholders is intended merely to provide data Some enumerators did, however, list the given names of enslaved peopleparticularly those over one hundred years of agewhich are generally found in the "name of slave owners" column. Between MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Orangeburg County population From the moment Black folks arrives on these shores, they were fighting for liberation, Smith says. The term "County" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1850 Federal Census. n In the late 1770s, a slave killed the wife and child of his master, then dressed up in a military uniform and paraded around the countryside until he was apprehended and subsequently killed. The site is now a museum. census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census. That had an impact not only on the Southern economy but the Northern economy. Dr. Lewis Dantzler had the two-story Greek Revival, raised cottage of frame construction built (1, p. 5). Others tell him there was no such a thing as a good slave master. Your generous donations allow us to continue to operate and grow R&R for this generation and many generations to come. For the most part, North Carolina slaves resisted the power of their masters by individual and collective actions that made their Although the Emancipation Proclamation started in 1863, slave life continued its path in Orangeburg until the end of the Civil War in 1865. WebField Slaves: An OverviewThe disappearance of slavery in other parts of the country during the early national period did not inspire southerners to give up their peculiar institution. They were whipped, tortured, mutilated, and 1:27 PM EDT, Sat October 2, 2021, Public slave auction, 1965. Racially related terms such as African American, black, mulatto and colored are used as in Updates: 703 Junaluska RD Boone, NC 28607 (828) 773-6525. sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. 1846-50 near the intersection of present-day Vance Road and Bass Drive in the rural Dantzler community near Holly Hill, in rural Orangeburg County, South Carolina, is a porticoed, two-story Greek Revival raised cottage of frame construction, set on a partially enclosed, brick pier foundation We see this most famously through Thomas Jefferson. We cannot disentangle our rise to global economic superiority from the fact that millions of people worked for free for more than two centuries. Enslaved laborers hand-hewed the sills and studs of the house from local oaks and made bricks for the fireplaces. According to The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, in the section "Judaism in the Antebellum South" which begins at page 384:. I just wanted to understand how people understood and made sense of and situated themselves in American history. WebDr. The main block is connected at the rear to a .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1+12-story kitchen structure. She was the daughter of an enslaved person not the granddaughter or the great-granddaughter. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The scene is one of many searing moments Smith captures in his New York Times bestseller, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.. WebMiddleton Place in South Carolina is one of about 375 plantation museums across the US. The plantation house is still standing, however, no outbuildings survive. What would you tell people who say if we do offer reparations to descendants of slaves, Native Americans can say, What about us? Where does this stop? Particularly in the case of Dr. Dantzler was also known to treat both Confederate and Union soliders during the war. of 984 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. After slavery, most of the balconies were torn down. 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. n The 1790 census reported 12,582 whites and 5,931 slaves. 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. To check a master surname list for other States A Warner Bros. Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C. (iStock) Article. such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves. Though the census schedules speak in terms of "slave owners", the transcriber has chosen to use the I always think now about the woman who opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016 alongside the Obama family, who rang the bell. n In 1831, a slave named Myers was expelled from the Methodist Church. WebPlantation slaves were punished for a number of infractions, including being late, not working quickly enough, and running away. In The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. 2. It was built about 18461850, and is a two-story, frame raised cottage in the Greek Revival style. America has a lot of accounting to do for what it has done to different groups of people. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997). His secret for long life is simple clean living and no Liker.. obtainable records of the holder. "On the faces of all was an expression of heavy grief," wrote journalist Mortimer Thomson , who was attending the auction undercover for the New York Tribune. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census", available His mission is researching Orangeburg history, with a particular emphasis on the role of African-Americans in that history. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much Any information is appreciated. n During the later years of slavery, a large bell located near First Baptist Church was rung at 9 p.m. in the winter and 10 p.m. in the summer to signify curfew time for the slaves. It slaveholder in each County. Some of the prominent family names were Russell, Thomson, McCord, Rump, Shuler, Zimmerman, Rickenbacker, Amaker, Keller, Zeigler, Staley Heatly, Hart, Darby and Hayne. census. I didnt own any slaves, and neither did my ancestors. WebReconstructed slave house, Somerset Plantation. 2015-21, Carolina Historical Consulting, LLC. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. If an African American ancestor with one of these surnames is found on the 1870 He had spent four years touring monuments and landmarks commemorating slavery across America and in Africa, but his stop at the Whitney, in his home state, stood out. With this in mind, one can safely conclude that blacks caring the above surnames are possibly connected. They were intergenerational sites of torture and exploitation. recommended database that can found at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/ . It features a front portico. n During the Revolutionary War, Capt. Please don't show this again. He opened their eyes a couple of weeks ago to the map data [], Latitude: 33.6706031 Longitude: -80.8043263. of the most slaves with the least amount of transcription work. They were, in effect, selling their own children off into slavery. Please note that this collection contains sensitive information about enslaved people. We are surely descended from the Orangeburg Dantzler's. WebPoint of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin: Edisto Island 85003122 Quinby Plantation House-Halidon Hill Plantation: Huger 97000359 Ravenwood Plantation: Neyles: Edisto Island Crowfield Hall Goose Creek: 07000098 Dantzler Plantation: Holly Hill 74001851. The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Orangeburg County, South Carolina (NARA microfilm series The process of turning a person into a house servant or field hand was called Orangeburgh sent slaves from the third division. The one-story raised cottage WebSlavery has been called Americas original sin, corrupting the culture and politics of the nation. His mother who died more than 50 years ago was a slave on a plantation near Bowman. Plantation is fine, as long as were clear what they were. checked also. Learn more. The blues and jazz and hip-hop, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance, and literature from people like Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker, those are shaped by a legacy of trauma. The planter aristocracy enlisted the support of nonslave-holding 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. It features a front portico. This transcription includes 109 slaveholders who held 35 or more slaves in Orangeburg John Salley had a faithful slave to stand sentinel under his window while he slept to warn him when the Tories were approaching. Uncle Jim says he was born in 1844 making him 108 years old. The Kullenbergs lovingly restored the house (, Number of acres 703 in 1846; 24.5 in 2007 (. included 8,108 whites, 205 "free colored" and 16,583 slaves. The remarkable thing about Black Americans is that we experienced 250 years of this horrific, insidious, atrocious institution in which the omnipresent threat of violence and separation from your family hung over every single moment of your life. 25,000 (127%); and Kansas up from 265 to 17,000 (6,400%). Uncle Jim remembers the early days on his fathers farm near Bowman when he worked from sun up til sun down.. Please subscribe to keep reading. 26 Jan 2023: Changes were made to improve the performance of this collection. A poster advertising a slave sale in 1863 in Frankfort, Kentucky. WebDantzler Plantation, also known as Four Hole Plantation House and SunnySide House, is a historic plantation house located near Holly Hill, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. He takes readers to places such as modern-day New York City on Wall Street, where the countrys second-largest slave market once stood on Wall Street, to show how the story of slavery is still being debated, distorted and denied. During the 1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, enslaved individuals were recorded separately in what were called slave schedules. The mill began operation in 1913 as Southern Paper Company. WebAnd they say their enslaved ancestors helped to construct this Creole plantation house 230 years ago for a German planter and slave owner named Jean Jacques Haydel. The increasing costs associated with hosting, development and maintenance of the site are covered by a few passionate individuals. Jacob Dantzler received a land grant (1, p. 8). WebNo. was obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Browser, which is a very detailed, searchable and highly S., 169 slaves, page 395, DANTZLER, Huddleston, 51 slaves, page 406B, WANNAMAKER, Jacob. Pro- and anti-slavery debates Yet by the mid-nineteenth century, cotton production was synonymous with slavery in the United States. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm FORMAT. How do you not lose hope for the future of this country when youve met so many White people who are in denial about slaverys impact? This memorial by Woodrow Nash at the Whitney Plantation commemorates an 1811 slave uprising after which its leaders were beheaded. Estimates of the number of former slaves who used the surname of a former owner in 1870, From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. n In 1865, the Orangeburgh Methodist Church had a substantial number of slave members. SELLERS, John & Samuel, 78 slaves, page 377, WANNAMAKER, W.? twenty-sixth in the United States. A statue at Goree Island in Senegal, known for being a center of the Atlantic slave trade from the 15th to the 19th century. My orientation for this book was one of curiosity. 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% of African Americans were enumerated as free in 1860, with about half of those The official enumeration day of the 1850 census was June 1, 1850. Slaves did more than just survive. If the surname is found, they can then view the of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages without a stamped An institution in which there are people who are alive today who were loved, raised by, and in community with people born into chattel slavery. 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