Getting the Most Out of the National Archives Catalog Suzanne Isaacs and Meredith Doviak Community Managers for the National Archives Catalog National Archives at College Park, MD 2 11 a.m. Federal Records that Help Identify Former Slaves and Slave Owners Claire Kluskens John Lynch (ca. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27574994, Slaves in the Estate of George Paddon Bond Hasell, Charleston and Union, SC, 1819 Indexed by Judi Scott, The Hayne Family: Theodore D. Jervey The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. The First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers is formed. Once weaned from their mothers, and sometimes even before, slave children on large plantations were usually cared for and watched after by older slave women while their mothers went back to work in the fields. Full-time. It is perhaps true that many masters resented the self-confidence and relative independence such a system permitted and that some were more successful than others at limiting the slaves possibilities, but all masters made concessions. This bridge was but one symbol of growth that had occurred since Lynchburg had been . Here, we provide links to online genealogies of South Carolina slaveholders. Although the colder winters on the coast created for them some disadvantages, they were better equipped epidemiologically (in terms of resistance to malaria and yellow fever) and pharmacologically (in terms of their ability to make use of native plants) to cope with South Carolinas semitropical environment. Joseph Rainey becomes the first African-American in South Carolina to become a U.S. Representative in Congress. . As the colony grew and prospered, the use of slaves for labor decreased and . (516) 847-2334, Facebook After the attack on Capt. Littlefield, Daniel C. Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina. Vol. As the first Virginian and first African American to have her poetry included in the highly influential the second poet to ever be included in the. It involves about 9,000 people. However, two house servants tell their masters before the planned date. Google South Carolina court cases relating to insurance in the international and domestic slave trade. Legacy Museum of African American History. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575052, Inventory and Division of Slaves, Estate of Benj. With a view to obtaining the freedom of one such slave, Milley, the executors brought suit in the Superior Court of South Carolina, losing the suit (1 Bay 232-35; 2 . Browse photos, see new properties, get open house info, and research neighborhoods on Trulia. Paul T Gervais, Charleston, SC, 1857, Slaves at the Exchange and Laurels Plantations, Paul T Gervais, SC, 1856, Slaves at Oakley Farm and in Charleston, Estate of Adelaide E. Gibbs, 1859, Slaves at the Rosemont Plantation of Adelaide Gibbs, 1860, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of John Gibbes, Colleton, SC, 1814, Slaves in the Estate of Theodore Gourdin, Berkeley County, SC, 1864, Slaves in the Estate of Theodore Gourdin, Georgetown and Williamsburg, SC, 1826, Slaves at the Brick Hope Plantation of A D Graves, Berkeley, SC 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Joshua Grimball, Edisto Island, SC, 1758, Slaves in the Estate of John Grimball, in Families, 4 Africans Noted, 1806, Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Guerard, Bees Creek, Beaufort, SC, 1823, Slaves in the Estate of George Paddon Bond Hasell, Charleston and Union, SC, 1819, 1,648 Slaves in the Estate of Nathaniel Heyward, Charleston, SC, 1851, Slaves in the Estate of Henry M. Holmes, Berkeley, SC, 1854, Slaves at Washington Plantation, Berkeley, South Carolina, 1860, 416 Slaves, Estate of Thomas Horry, Charleston and Georgetown, SC, 1820, Slaves at the Clydesdale Plantation of D E Huger, Beaufort, SC, 1855, Slaves in the Estate of John Huger, St. Lukes Parish, Beaufort, SC, 1853, Slaves in the Estate Sale of Alfred Huger, Jr., Charleston, SC, 1857, Slaves at Cat Island and Bluff Plantations of Alexander Hume, 1849, Slaves at the Cat Island Plantation of Thomas W. Hume, Charleston, SC, 1861, 213 Slaves in the Estate of Jacob Bond Ion, Charleston, SC, 1797, Estate Inventory of Richard Jenkins, Wadmalaw Island, Charleston District and St. Helena Island, Beaufort District, SC, 1857, Estate Inventory of Richard Jenkins, Wadmalaw Island, Charleston, SC, 1857, 117 Slaves in the Estate of Micah J. Jenkins, Charleston, SC, 1852, Slaves in the Estate of Benjamin J. Johnson, Charleston, SC, 1861, Sale of 101 Slaves in the Estate of B.F. Johnson, Charleston, SC, 1862, Slaves at Foot Point Plantation, Estate of D. G. Joye, Beaufort, SC, 1851, Sale of Slaves in the Estate of Daniel G Joye, Charleston, SC, 1853, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of Newman Kershaw, Charleston, SC, 1841, Slaves in the Estate of Mitchell King, Charleston, SC and Chatham, GA, 1863, Slaves in the Estate of Mary LaRoche, Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island, SC, 1842, Slaves at the Farmfield Plantation of Margaret Laurens, 1859, Slaves at the Point Comfort Plantation of Keating S Laurens, Charleston, SC, 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Thomas Legare, Charleston and Orangeburg, SC, 1843, Slaves in the Estate of Aaron Loocock, Richland and Charleston, SC, 1794, Inventory & Division of Slaves in the Estate of James Lowndes, Colleton, SC, 1839, Sale of 96 Slaves in the Estate of Edward Lowndes, Charleston, SC, 1853, Slaves at Hopsewee Plantation, Santee River, Georgetown, SC, 1854, African Children in the Estate of James Mackie, Charleston, SC, 1806, Slaves at the White Oak and Ogilvie Plantations of Joseph Manigault, Georgetown, SC, 1844, 153 Slaves in the Estate of Francis Marion, Berkeley, SC, 1826, Division of Slaves in the Estate of Francis Marion, Charleston, SC, 1833, 227 Slaves in the Estate of John T. Marshall, Charleston, SC, 1860, Slaves in the Estate of Robert Martin, Barnwell District, 1853, 271 Slaves in the Estate of Wm. Lee County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). 205-240. Past exhibits have included African American medicine, education and civic and social groups. Fuller, Charleston, SC, 1836 and 1837 Indexed by Alana, Slaves at Cottage Plantation, Theodore Samuel Gaillard, Berkeley, SC, 1855 Indexed by Alana, 115 Slaves, Estate of Gilbert Geddes, Geddes Hall Plantation, SC, 1842 Indexed by Vickie Everhart, Robert Gibbes, Governor of South Carolina, and Some of His Descendants: Henry S. Holmes The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. A convention of 48 whites and 76 blacks meet and write a very progressive constitution that includes representation based on population, a complete bill of rights, protection of a married woman's property rights, a homestead exemption, and a right to a public education. African-Americans, now comprising about sixty percent of the population, are relegated to less than five percent of the voters in South Carolina. The Deep South used to be a hotbed of plantation activity and the slave trade. Memorial service will be held on Saturday December 24, 2022 at 11:00am at the Gethsemane Apostolic Church in Lynchburg, SC burial will follow in the church cemetery at a later date due to declining weather. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Goods they acquired or produced in their spare time they sold or exchanged with other slaves and with whites. Past exhibits have included African American medicine, education and civic and social groups. 2 (Apr., 1901), pp. to the trail, eventually leading all the way down to the revitalized Downtown Lynchburg on the James River. Lynch's Legacy. Enslaved African-Americans flee to the area where Union troops consider blacks to be free because they are the "contraband of war." Slavery officially ended in America with the passage of the 13th Amendment following the Civil War's end in 1865. Old City Cemetery. Tanglewood Plantation, also known as the Ellison Durant Smith House and as Smith's Grove Plantation, is a historic plantation home located in Lynchburg, South Carolina.In 1747, King George II granted the almost 5,000-acre tract of land to Arthur Smith, who moved here from Smith Island, North Carolina. Extended kin, fictive or otherwise, helped ease the burden of children separated from parents, of wives removed from husbands. About 20,000 enslaved Africans are brought to the state. Accompanied by an Account of the First Thomas Elliott and of Some of His Descendants: Mabel L. Webber The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. Africans were present at the founding of the English colony in South Carolina and within several decades became a majority. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. After forcefully disarming the militia unit, whites execute five of their prisoners. The historian Winthrop Jordan argued that in perhaps no other area was the prohibition on interracial sex involving a white woman and a black man so early and strictly established and maintained. In the early years South Carolinians grew rice on dry upland soils, but planters soon switched to inland swamps. Other names - Smith's Grove Current status - Privately owned and available for special events Side of Tanglewood Plantation Sue Caldwell Roberts, 2015 (Do Not Use Without Written Consent) Timeline c. tended to come from the border states that had seen most of the vicious fighting during the Civil War. Everyday forms of resistance such as work slowdowns and breaking tools were used by slaves in this complicated negotiating system. A group of about 100 English settlers and at least one enslaved African create the first permanent colony near present-day Charleston. These fields required the building of massive dikes, levees, and canals by hand with picks and shovels, working in the mud with snakes, alligators, and other vermin. Led by Denmark Vesey, an African-Methodist church founder and former enslaved person who had bought his freedom, the rebellion is well-planned and widespread. Six African-American politicians attend the convention (Robert Smalls, Thomas Miller, William Whipper, James Wigg, Isaiah Reed, and Robert Anderson) and speak out against the proceedings but are outvoted. Robert Smalls sails The Planter through Confederate lines and delivers it and its cargo to Union forces off the South Carolina coast. The onset of cotton production contributed to a substantial increase in the slave population, and by 1830 the slave population was almost equal to the white population. In the islands, the black population highly outnumbered the white population, and there an English planter was practically expected to take a black mistress. Calling all Citizen Archivists! Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. During Black History Month, we take this opportunity to celebrate the historic contributions made by African Americans in our own community with our recommendations of where to see and hear the stories of these quiet, and not so quiet, revolutionaries. Sale of Slaves in the Estate of Robert M. Allen, Charleston, SC, 1840 Indexed by Felicia Mathis. 1747-2014. 9, No. Slaves were not to be away from a plantation between sunset and sunrise and at no time without the permission of the master or they could be taken up and whipped. In 1790 these upland counties operated essentially in a free-labor society, fifteen thousand slaves amounting to no more than a fifth of the population. They plan to fight their way to St. Augustine where the Spanish promise freedom. 210. from $122/night. Of particular interest are the markers on the three blocks of Pierce Street from 12th to 15th Streets, which is also designated as the Pierce Street Renaissance Historic District, where there are more markers concentrated than any other town or city in Virginia. This arrangement provided both physical and to some extent psychological distance between masters and slaves, allowing slaves some autonomy once the workday was over, a luxury that was often denied house servants and those living on small farms. This is a transcript of the Gastropod episode The Secret History of the Slave Behind Jack Daniel's Whiskey, first released on January 29, 2019. Largely concentrated in places such as the rice regions of the lowcountry and fertile cotton regions such as Sumter District, slaves created communities shaped as much by their own interactions as by their relationships with whites. The Colored Farmers' Alliance reaches a membership of 30,000 members in South Carolina and prints its own newspaper. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. View 13 photos of this 3 bed, 2 bath, 2512 sqft. 1 (Jan., 1904), pp. Sarah Elizabeth Adams was around 5 when her mother was sold to a slave dealer in Lynchburg, Va. "Here on these grounds in the summer of 1780 Col. Charles Lynch was informed by Governor Jefferson of a Tory Conspiracy, a British loyalist conspiracy, to free prisoners of war. 2 (Apr., 1904), pp. At that time, it was the only burial ground available to the Black community. Led by Denmark Vesey, an African-Methodist church founder and former enslaved person who had bought his freedom, the rebellion is well-planned and widespread. 6, No. 3, No. By 1860, nearly 74% of the white households within the city either owned or rented slaves. When miscegenation occurred, it was usually a one-way affair involving a white man and a black (slave) woman. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. South Carolina's history is inextricably linked to the history of slavery in the United States. Miller Park. A Biohistory of a Rural Black Cemetery in the Post-Reconstruction South. Slave runaways, those who in effect stole themselves, were numerous, as the ubiquitous advertisements in antebellum newspapers posting rewards for their capture attest. By 1860, 45.8 percent of white families in the state owned slaves, giving the state one of the highest percentages of slaveholders in the country. Renting allowed them to create contracts for a specific amount of time or for a job without having to pay the expenses or taxes associated with being an . , Anne Spencer was known for her poems with heavy biblical and mythological themes. The National Archives has microfilmed all of the original manuscripts for applicable states. Written documents suggest that many were hanged. 11, No. This marked another distinctive feature of South Carolina, for it was the only colony in English North America where this proportion existed. 2, No. Groves, Joseph Asbury 1901 The Alstons and Allstons of North and South Carolina. View photos, public assessor data, maps and county tax information. Benjamin Land at the nearby Rocky Creek Settlement (March 3rd), Lt. James Kennedy and a few of his men attacked a group of Loyalists who were at the plantation of "Old James Wylie, in the district of Rocky Creek." The Loyalists thought they were outnumbered and fled through the "old fields." The number of African-American owned general stores, the business centers in the communities across the rural state, reaches nearly 500, about ten times the number in 1880. LINKS Large Slaveholders of 1860: extraction of many slaveholders in various South Carolina counties SC Genweb: General South Carolina genealogical information. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. See if the property is available for sale or lease. This is the only public school to serve African-Americans in Columbia until 1916. The search for enslaved ancestors requires research in the records of slaveholding families. Florence, SC 29501. It is one of many self-help groups formed by free African-Americans to help with education, burial costs, and support of widows and orphans of members. Residents survive by avoiding the cotton based crop lien system and instead grow the food they need and avoid contact with whites during the difficult decades after Reconstruction. It is no wonder, then, that a Swiss immigrant remarked in 1737 that Carolina looks more like a Negro country than a country settled by white people. Although the proportion was not as great as that in the West Indies, where blacks sometimes outnumbered whites by as many as ten or more to one, the disequilibrium was more than sufficient to make the colony unique on the mainland. Thus, slaves could provide each other with moral, spiritual, and sometimes cultural support. The school survives as the Penn Center, serving as a conference center for the civil rights movement and a center for self-help and historical preservation today. All white students and faculty leave, but the school remains open with the help of white faculty from the North. English ethnocentrism was such that the English assumed superiority in the face of practically everyone they met, and Africans were no exception. Chisholm Genealogy: Being a Record of the Name from A. D. 1254; with Short Sketches of Allied Families: William Garnett Chisolm, 1914, Knickerbocker Press. 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. Rose, Jerome C. ed. Around one in three of the early settlers are African. The average age of child bearing among slave women in the antebellum South was nineteen years old, while the average age for white women was twenty-one. South Carolina Slavery Facts. And his example of Jacob, the slave boatman (p. 71), is misleading inasmuch as the insurer was an individual rather than a company. With a sprawling 27-acres of gardens, history park and gravestones, Old City Cemetery is a must-visit for any history lover. Africanisms more often abided in underlying assumptions about lifein folkways, folktales, and a cosmology that placed greater emphasis on kinand extended family relationships were no doubt strengthened by the fragility of family life under slavery. miles. About 200 African-Americans from South Carolina, following the advice of Reverend Richard H. Cain, a member of Congress from South Carolina and a newspaper publisher, emigrate to Liberia. . Spanish explorer Ayllon brings a few enslaved Africans to the South Carolina coast. Hampton about a decade earlier, is holding county fairs all over the state to improve farmer education and self-sufficiency. Jordan, Winthrop D. White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 15501812. He survives the vows of silence taken by other cadets, having to drill alone, eating after all the other cadets, being screamed at by instructors until 1874 when he is failed on an oral exam that is given to him in secret by a hostile philosophy professor and is dismissed from the academy. Because of this, 2019 is remembered as the 400th anniversary of slavery in the United States. South Carolina Plantations - Slaves, Slavery Basic Information According to the 1860 census, nine of America's 19 largest slaveholders were South Carolinians. Digitized by Google Books. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575005, The Colleton Family in South Carolina: The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. 2, No. The most extreme form of resistance, open revolt, was not common in antebellum South Carolina, but slave violence against whites was a common occurrence, despite the fact that slaves convicted of committing such acts faced extreme punishments ranging from death to severe whipping. African American burial sites & notable graves are mapped out in a brochure available at the Old City Cemetery welcome center. The mechanics of cotton production were closer to those of tobacco than to those of rice. In reaction to the Stono Rebellion, the legislature passes slave codes which forbid travel without written permission, group meetings without the presence of whites, raising their own food, possessing money, learning to read, and the use of drums, horns, and other "loud instruments," that might be used by enslaved Africans to communicate with each other. The unit proves to be a great success. They had already freed their own slaves and were now moved to speak openly against others not in their society. The state legislature creates the S.C. In the wake of an online petition last month calling for changing the . The Brown Fellowship Society reflects the prejudice of the day, restricting its membership to those who are racially mixed and whose skin color is brown rather than black. The historian Peter Wood suggested that the cowboy, prominently connected with the nineteenth-century American West, may well have found its first usage in South Carolina. Although insufficient funds are available, this is the first such effort in the history of the state. African expertise as well as rough pioneer conditions of a new settlement facilitated a degree of sawbuck equality in the seventeenth centurya term derived from the image of a slaveowner working all day sawing wood with his slave, each facing the other on opposite sides of a sawbuck. As an adult, Faulkner remembers Brown's stories about Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox and publishes them under the title The Days When Animals Talked. Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 16501800. 3 (Jul., 1902), pp. They restrict the right to vote and elect an all-white legislature that then passes the "Black Codes," which restrict rights of the newly freed people. 5, No. However, two house servants tell their masters before the planned date. We also provide links to online records for SC slaveholders on Fold3.com. In the 1760s Anglo-American frontiersmen, determined to settle the land, planted slavery firmly within the borders of what would become Tennessee. "He had. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Located at USGenWeb Census Project. The elevation is 151 feet. Roughly 100 enslaved Africans, led by "Jemmy," capture firearms about 20 miles south of Charles Town, and attempt to rally more people to join them. Arthur MacBeth opens a photographic studio in Charleston, winning many awards for his pioneering work. 8 Ibid., 71. 4 (Oct., 1910), pp. Africans were among the first to appropriate native languages and were often used as translators. Jasper, John(4 July 1812-30 March 1901), Baptist . For Civil War history buffs, there are over 2200 Civil War graves there, and some monuments. Heyward with Freed People, Charleston, SC, Slaves in the Estate of Henry M. Holmes, Berkeley, SC, 1854 Indexed by Alana, Slaves at Washington Plantation, Berkeley, South Carolina, 1860 Indexed by Toni, 416 Slaves, Estate of Thomas Horry, Charleston and Georgetown, SC, 1820 Indexed by Felicia R. Mathis, The Hutson Family of South Carolina: William Maine Hutson The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. During the second half of the eighteenth century, and especially during the Revolutionary crisis, racial attitudes in South Carolina hardened. They are the work of many hearts and many hands. The Cemetery was the primary burial site for those of African decent in Lynchburg from 1806 to 1865, with over 75 percent of the men and women buried there being African American. Updated: Jan 28, 2023 / 05:39 PM EST. of new owners in South Carolina and Georgia, Christopher Johnson, one of the executors, was put to great expense, traveling upwards of ten thou-sand miles in executing the will. The goal of many was to escape to the North and freedom, but this was a difficult journey that only the fittest and most determined successfully completed. There is no entrance fee to visit the cemetery, which is open year-round. 216-241. Miles Brewton and Some of His Descendants: A. S. Salley, Jr. 14, No. 70), wants to ban educators from teaching about slave owners in schools across the Palmetto state. Although enslaved people have periodically fought back, this is the first large-scale rebellion. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575259, Sale, 93 Slaves and 3 Plantations of Alexander England, Colleton, SC, 1850 Indexed by Felicia R. Mathis, Slaves at Richfield Plantation, Estate of Henry Faber, Charleston, SC, 1840 Indexed by Alana Thevenet, An Account of the Tattnall and Fenwick Families in South Carolina: D. E. Huger Smith The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. Gone To A Better Land. This greatly increases the need for labor and once again increases the number of enslaved Africans brought to the state. View information about 120 Holy Ln, Lynchburg, SC 29080. However these farms are relatively productive, producing thirty-nine per cent of agricultural output. 4 (Oct., 1901), pp. was a poet, civil rights activist, teacher, librarian, wife, mother and gardener who lived in Lynchburg during the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement. The following information is provided for citations. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. By the 1850s, laborers in the growing number of tobacco factories of Richmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg, and Danville were "almost exclusively" slaves. 57-71. The pidgin English concocted as a means of communication between and among masters and various African ethnic groups became more regularized and evolved into a separate Creole language among Gullah and Geechee speakers along the coast. Chisholm Genealogy: Being a Record of the Name from A. D. 1254; with Short Sketches of Allied Families: Slaves in the Estate of Alexander Robert Chisolm, SC and GA, 1827, 206 Slaves in the Estate of James Clark, Edisto Island, SC, 1820, 272 Slaves in the Estate of Solomon Clarke, Charleston, SC, 1851, Slaves at the Raft Plantation of John Clarkson, Wateree River, Richland, SC, Slaves in the Estate of John A. Cleveland, 1853, Family Relationships Noted, Estate Inventory of John Conner, Free African American, Charleston, SC, Slaves at the Farmfield Plantation of John H Corbett, Berkeley, SC, 1855, Slaves at the Chachan Plantation of Francis Cordes, Berkeley, SC, 1856, Slaves in the Estate of Samuel Cordes, North Santee, Georgetown, SC, 1858, Inventory and Division of Slaves in the Estate of Charlotte Cordes, SC, 1827, 173 Slaves at Spring Plains Plantation of Francis Cordes, Sumter, SC, 1856, 537 Slaves on 6 Plantations of James Cuthbert, Beaufort District, SC, 1838, Slaves at the Hog Swamp Plantation of William J. Dennis, Berkeley County, SC, 1854, Slaves in the Estate of Samuel Dubose, Charleston, SC, 1859, Slaves in the Estate of William Edings, Colleton and Beaufort, SC, 1836, Slaves in the Estate of William Edings, Beaufort County, SC, 1859, Slaves at the Spring Island and Pineland Plantations of the Edwards Family, Beaufort, SC, Sale, 93 Slaves and 3 Plantations of Alexander England, Colleton, SC, 1850, Slaves at Richfield Plantation, Estate of Henry Faber, Charleston, SC, 1840, Enslaved Ancestors in the Estate of Isaac Fickling, Charleston, SC, 1834, 110 Slaves in the Estate of Eliza Flynn, Colleton County, SC, 1845, Inventory and Division of Slaves, Estate of Benj. Youtube, South Carolina and the African Slave Trade, Growth of South Carolina's Slave Population, South Carolina's slave population compared to other states, Slavery at South Carolina College, 1801-1865, African American Resources>Humanities>Libraries, African American Resources>Humanities>Museums, African American Resources>Humanities>Research Centers, African American Resources>Education > African American Universities & Colleges, African American Resources>History>American Slavery>Slave Records. Few records exist about this revolt, but it is stopped before it really takes place. Over time, East Tennessee, hilly and dominated by small farms, retained the fewest number of slaves. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine Vol. 2100 South Carolina Highway 341 South, Lynchburg, South Carolina 29080, United States. Black Genealogy Records. Samuel Garland 16 Dec 1830 Lynchburg, Virginia - 14 Sep 1862 Thomas Garnett 1676 Kingston Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia Colony . This harsher attitude can be seen in the increasingly restrictive laws passed to regulate the slave and free-black population. No other major boxing matches take place between blacks and whites until 1891. That is, they were the property of the enemy which is forfeited. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Where there was a great disproportion of blacks to whites, black concubinage seemed to be more often acceptable. The growth of a Creole, or native-born, population signaled formation of a Creole culture that was neither African nor European but contained elements of both, modified by the attributes of a new environment and the input of Native Americans. Invention of the cotton gin makes the growing of cotton profitable in non-coastal areas where only cotton with a lot of seeds in the bolls will grow. Published by: South Carolina Historical Society. Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. John Alston: A. S. 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