When too few of the Guanches were left alive from disease and overwork, African slaves were imported. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America., They grew up surrounded by racism. such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves. Some of these former slaves When people talk about what makes America exceptional, what made us so economically powerful, they often talk about American ingenuity, can-do spirit, and people like John D. Rockefeller. may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living Black people were worth more than every bank, factory, and railroad combined. I'm Jacqueline Dantzler Liddy, born in Sumter, SC. 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. AFLLC and info@rootsandrecall.com, 4175 Booney Road, Rock Hill, S.C. 29730, U.S. Patented info@rootsandrecall.com. 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. 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. The two interior double chimneys and the two exterior chimneys at the rear of the main block are composed of soft brick that was made on the property and also used in the construction of the foundation. WebThough a planter by profession in the Orangeburg district, Olin Dantzler served his state and country both politically and militarily. 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. To check a master surname list for other States 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.. 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. Marli E Weiner, a historian at the University of Maine, disagrees. To browse this image set, select from the options below. Blood stains on the upstairs pine floors from this period remain to this day (3). ancestor not shown to hold slaves on the 1860 slave census could have held slaves on an earlier census, so those films can be Plantation names were not shown on the census. and Counties, return to Home and Links Page. Yet by the mid-nineteenth century, cotton production was synonymous with slavery in the United States. 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. 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. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. 26 Jan 2023: Changes were made to improve the performance of this collection. It was built about 18461850, and is a two-story, frame raised cottage in the Greek Revival style. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images), Author Clint Smith: "America has a lot of accounting to do for what it has done to different groups of people.". LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. can be viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. At best, they provide supporting evidence for a hypothesis derived from other sources. For the most part, North Carolina slaves resisted the power of their masters by individual and collective actions that made their enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind At the end of the Civil War, the blacks withdrew and formed Trinity Methodist. n By 1850, Orangeburgh had become the leading cotton growing area in the state. October 21, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT. TERMINOLOGY. 30% to 5,709, while the "colored" population had decreased about 34% to 11,156. term "slaveholder" rather than "slave owner", so that questions of justice and legality of claims of ownership need not be You have permission to edit this article. Dantzler was also known to treat both Confederate and Union soliders during the war. 703 Junaluska RD Boone, NC 28607 (828) 773-6525. n On Nov. 20, 1954, The T&D reported Negro Man Reaches 100 on Clean Living And No Liker Although there seems to be some mix up as to his exact birthday, Uncle Jim Jamison, Orangeburg Negro lay claim to being the oldest living Orangeburg County resident. I've already donated. The Dantzler Plantation House is significant as an outstanding local example of mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival architecture with various later alterations and additions designed to emulate this Greek Revival style, as well as for its significant and intriguing interior modifications that reflect the changing fortunes of its owners and the various uses of plantation architecture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Researchers seeking information about slave owners may find slave schedules useful because of the specific information they provide about slave owners holdings. SELLERS, John & Samuel, 78 slaves, page 377, WANNAMAKER, W.? Please don't show this again. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. WebFreed slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported with their full name, including surname. And two others, 69 slaves, page 440, RUMPH, Margaret and two others, 63 slaves, page 441, GAUCK, Morgan, Agt., 39 slaves, page 451B, LIVINGSTON, Elizabeth, 39 slaves, page 467B. They fought for freedom that they never had the opportunity to see, but they fought for it anyway because they knew that someday someone would. obtainable records of the holder. Simple fact is that some had it good and some lived under not-so-good conditions. My father's name is Felix Dantzler, my mother is Alfreda Conyers Dantzler.I am one of four children born to them.The others are Felicia Dantzler Hope, Felix Dantzler Jr. and Theresa Charone Dantzler Johnson.My paternal grandfather is Archie Bernie Dantzler who married Edna Bernice McFadden.My grandfather's father is Pendant Dantzler of Orangeburg, SC. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1850 United States Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States. 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 During the Revolutionary War, Capt. I knew that if I wanted people to tell their truth, I had to listen, and I had to be open to things I disagree with and things I profoundly disagree with. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). 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. WebReconstructed slave house, Somerset Plantation. Particularly in the case of Hi, I'm a Dantzler descendant, assuredly a slave descendant. The four million Black people were worth more than all the manufacturing in this country before the Civil War began. census. Then they heard from them again. How do you respond to people who say, Why should I care about slavery? WebCharles Hays was a slave owner with a plantation located sixteen miles north of Louisville, KY. Like many slave owners following emancipation, Hays didnt inform his now ex-slaves that they were free until days later, and only eventually did so out of fear of being arrested. 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. In The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. The rest of the slaves in the County were held by a total That had an impact not only on the Southern economy but the Northern economy. G., 41 slaves, page 438, MOORER, J. T.? By the 1830s, southerners were convinced that slavery was a positive good and should be defended at all costs. One of the most telling examples of the relationship between slavery and the economy is that in 1860, four million Black people were enslaved. All Rights Reserved. Slaves 100 years of age or older were supposed to be named on the 1860 slave schedule, but there were only 1,570 slaves of It would give a sense of why racial inequality looks the way it does today. Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." Smith also visits such landmarks as Thomas Jeffersons Monticello plantation in Virginia and Goree Island in Senegal, a notorious slave-trading center. WebHistorical Background. n In 1790, 746 whites had slaves working their fields. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Click on the highlighted category to be directed to that specific category. FORMER SLAVES. Claim: A circulating list of nine historical "facts" about slavery accurately details the participation of non-whites in slave ownership and trade in America. n In 1826, Moses Zeigler, a slave, applied and was granted a license to preach as a Methodist. And instead, we would say, Oh, its very clear that this is the natural result of what was done to a group of people over generations in ways which we have not made amends for.. The house, constructed ca. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm Orangeburgh sent slaves from the third division. vary widely and from region to region. n Slaves worshiped in the balcony of the white churches. The sort of slippery slope argument is not convincing to me. The property is also noteworthy for its association with the Dantzler family, one of the most prominent families of Orangeburg County from the eighteenth century to the present, and it remains in family hands. WebThe Dantzler Plantation House is significant as an outstanding local example of mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival architecture with various later alterations and additions designed to emulate this Greek Revival style, as well as for its significant and intriguing interior modifications that reflect the changing fortunes of its owners and the surname. Due to variable film quality, handwriting Because of the destruction wrought on such properties in Orangeburg County during the Civil War, such an intact property is rare for the county. Across the south, housing developments, schools and When I see that at the Whitney, I think of all those sacrifices.. addressed in this transcription. They were intergenerational sites of torture and exploitation. 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. Uncle Jim remembers the early days on his fathers farm near Bowman when he worked from sun up til sun down.. Charleston County saw an increase in colored population of almost two thirds between 1860 The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding WebNo. I believe that indigenous communities should have reparations for what theyve been subjected to. Unfortunately, the film viewed by the transcriber had some faded ink and focus problems. 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