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Plan of the City of Beaufort, S.C., as allotted by U.S. Tax Commissioners for the District of South Carolina, February 1863
Plan of the City of Beaufort, S.C., as allotted by U.S. Tax Commissioners for the District of South Carolina, February 1863
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Beaufort's African American Civil War Pensioners
1883 List of Beaufort Pensioners
Beaufort District Historic News Extracts
WPA Narratives from Beaufort's Former Slaves
Beaufort's Historical Schools and Post Offices
The Beaufort District Collection
The New South Newspaper 1862-1866
Politicians born in Beaufort SC
Jury Lists of South Carolina 1778-1779
Livingston's Law Register - Beaufort SC
Beaufort County Obits and Death Notices
Large Slaveholder Project - Beaufort
Beaufort County South Carolina African Americans
Recollections of the inhabitants localities superstitions and Kuklux outrages of the Carolinas [electronic resource] (1880)
Beaufort Slaves mentioned in Book of Negroes
Harriet Tubman describes the Gullah Speaking Women of the Sea IslandsAfrican American WomenThe Gullah-speaking women of the sea islands are an excellent example of African American female assertiveness and survival. They managed plantations slaveowners abandoned while their men were fighting in the Union Army. The women successfully raised cotton livestock and vegetables for their own use and sale attended the schools for freedpeople and wrote encouraging letters to men. Several hundred women from the Combahee River area of the Sea Islands formed a colony and made gloves stockings and raised food for the men in the Union Army. They spun yam in a tin basin and used reeds they cut from the swamps to knit the yarn. One great-grandmother in the Port Royal area of the Sea Islands cultivated three acres of cotton (a full man's task in old times...) besides three of corn and one of potatoes testifying to the freedwoman's delight in her freedom and SELF-SUFFICIENCY! / Harriet Tubman painted a penetrating portrait of the Sea Island women as they escaped enslavement on the islands. They left on gunboats going to Beaufort South Carolina so they would be behind Union lines. Here you'd see a woman with a pail on her head rice a-smoking in it just as she'd taken it from the fire young one hanging on behind one hand around her forehead to hold on another hand digging into the rice pot eating with all its might; hold of her dress two or three more; down her back a bag with a pig in it. She was depicting strong resourceful women like herself. -- African American Women during the Civil War by Ella Forbes
List of Teachers Now in Service South Carolina 1865
p. 65 The following teachers are in service in South Carolina according to the Freedmen's Record in 1865---- Information transferred to Roupelmond...Arthur Sumner St. Helena Island; William All
Voter Registration - Cornelius Singleton - 1868
Voter Registration - Robert Smalls - 1868
Voter Registration - James Snipes - 1868
General Hospital No. 14 - The Baptist Church of Beaufort
M. A. Wight. Edgerly Plantation on Port Royal Island SC March 22 1864
Thurston Chase Sea Island School List 1867
Monthly Teacher's Bulletin Margaret Burke - Mitchelville
Marshland School - Hilton Head
List of the first teachers who arrived on Port Royal Island SC - Civil War
List of Superintendents and Teachers under Rufus Saxton - Port RoyaL sc
Teacher List in the Department of the South - Port Royal Relief Society
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites for Politicians in Beaufort County
Beaufort: The Original Plan and the Earliest Settlers
Robert Smalls - Booker T. Washington letter
Zora Neale Hurston writes on the death of Osceola in a Beaufort Fort
Lockwood v. Lockwood (1904) - Beaufort
Frances Dana Barker Gage and George Gage Treasurer of Beaufort County
Politicians who live in Beaufort S.C.
Beaufort SC 1868 Voter Registrations - Bluffton Precinct
Sir Charles Lyell meets the Slave Stealer on his way to Beaufort
Beaufort District Losses - Jasper County Property Seizures
Julius Washington Colored Branch Beaufort Library
Negro Congressman: A Generation after...
Gantt-Mulligan House 813 King Street
Plan of the City of Beaufort, S.C., as allotted by U.S. Tax Commissioners for the District of South Carolina, February 1863
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