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491 Slaves Freed from Heyward Plantations, Colleton, SC  Detail from Heyward Family Papers, 1703-1975
In July of 1865, Edward Barnwell Heyward prepared a remarkable document: a list of 491 enslaved people who were freed from his father Charles Heyward's Amsterdam, Lewisburg, Pleasant Hill, Rose Hill, Myrtle Grove and Ashley Farm plantations on the Combahee River in Colleton County, South Carolina.
The list, dated July 1865, was filed with the estate appraisal of Charles Heyward on March 3, 1866. Freed people are listed by name, age, occupation and plantation.
The original manuscript is among the Heyward family papers at the South Caroliniana Library, and they share it here for the first time. Do you appreciate the South Caroliniana Library sharing this document on Lowcountry Africana? Click here to send 'em some love.
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Source Citation:
List of 491 Slaves Freed from Amsterdam, Ashley Farm, Lewisburg, Myrtle Grove, Pleasant Hill and Rose Hill Plantations. Charles Heyward Account Book, Heyward Family Papers, 1703 - 1975. South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina.
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Related Resources:
Maps
Map of the Lower Combahee River from the Ace Basin National Estuarine Research website
Map of the Upper Combahee River from the Ace Basin National Estuarine Research website
Further Reading: Place Names Learn more about Colleton County locations from Names In Colleton County, at the South Carolina USGenweb website
Further Reading: Archaeology Read about artifacts recovered from the Combahee River at the Maritime Research Division page, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology website
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