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06/12/2010
We're Celebrating 7 Days of Juneteenth! In honor of the upcoming Juneteenth holiday, we will be posting new records each day for the next 7 days. The records we've chosen were all written in the early days following Emancipation in the Lowcountry, before 1870, and may provide information important for breaking down the 1870 Brick Wall. We start today with a Freedmen's Labor Contract between Mrs. Catherine G. White and freedmen and women on an unnamed plantation in Berkeley County, SC, to cultivate the plantation from January 1866 to January 1867. This document is remarkable because it records family relationships among the freedmen and women who entered into the contract. Below are document images and an abstract of names. You can click on each document page to view the full-size page image.
Those who contracted with Catherine White were:
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