Book/Printed Material The freedmen of South-Carolina: some account of their appearance, character, condition, and peculiar customs African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy PAPERS OF THE DAY; COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY FRANK MOORE, EDITOR OF THE REBELLION RECORD, DIARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, ETC., ETC. NO. 1. THE FREEDMEN OF SOUTH-CAROLINA: SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE FREEDMEN OF SOUTH-CAROLINA: SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR APPEARANCE, CHARACTER, CONDITION, AND PECULIAR CUSTOMS. BY CHARLES NORDHOFF. Port Royal, March 20, 1863. As the ship steams up to her anchorage in the…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 2 stout black fellows working like beavers, rolling casks and barrels, moving boxes, and carrying burdens of all kinds. If, after dinner, you ride out to General Drayton's plantation, you may see…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 3 Congressman, now a general in the Union armies, was held justified by a jury, and by a large part of the public, especially in the slave States—if I should add all…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 the past year of freedom, sufficient food to supply themselves. In the season they have sold garden vegetables, melons, etc., to the troops to a considerable amount; they have furnished a…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 “Yes, sir, dey work, ” was his reply, “but dey don't work like men. After all, sir, one good-fornuffin man's worth two smart women any day.” Have you not heard some…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 other fish. Oysters are also abundant; and you hear pigs squealing and hens cackling around all the “quarters.” The last they raise to sell, and not to eat. Insufficient nourishment and…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 “Dey's all mean alike,” said one man, when closely questioned. Now there was one Fripps, a planter on one of the islands, of whom the blacks habitually speak as “good Mr.…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 and tapping it energetically with her fore-finger, exclaimed: “You see dat, massa? Dat's what he got he money—out o' dat black skin he got he money.” I have set down as…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 planters and overseers profitably rid themselves of the evidences of their vice and guilt. In Miss Kennedy's school, at Beaufort, I saw a child perfectly beautiful and charming—a little girl, some…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 Their conduct in the schools is satisfactory to the teachers. They are restless, as all children are; for my part, with doors and windows open, and the warm sunlight shining in…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 for servants and other laborers; and on Hilton Head Island the necessities of the Quartermaster's Department, which employs there alone some six hundred men, have brought many families down to the…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 men, women and children packed up, put their bundles into a scow, and drifted down into our lines. Negroes frequently come here from the interior. Not long since ten fellows, who…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 by our troops. When the pickets were removed, the blacks were also taken to Port Royal Island. They left their crops of corn, potatoes and cotton, standing. They discovered presently that…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 superintendent, and they meet frequently for consultation and to compare experiences. The people “are made responsible for planting and cultivating sufficient corn and potatoes for their own subsistence.” This is the…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 till two months after the usual time for commencing to prepare the ground. The consequences were, hasty and insufficient preparation and late maturity, which gave the caterpillar, cut-worm and frost a…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 indolent and improvident negroes? To this I got no definite reply, and found the reason to be that not enough of such cases had arisen so far to necessitate the formation…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 born and reared in freedom. Compared with these they struck me as decidedly a grade lower in the scale. But when we consider that a generation of freedom has worked this…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 had twenty-three children.” She did not look to be more than forty years old. The cabins are, for the most part, whitewashed outside; inside they are smoke-stained, and on rainy days…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 astounding agglomerations of rags, this which seemed to me the most dreary discomfort, the gloom through which, standing before the inner room, you heard a voice—the voice of some old crone—without…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 I am making no excuse for the blacks in all this. They do not need it, for they display a disposition to make a better figure in the world, which proves…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 to see you, and the whole line courtesies, with a sudden bend of the knees, which has a somewhat comical effect at first. While slaves, of course their days were claimed…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 weeks with her husband the girl returned one day to her father's house, and there remained. The husband tried, but ineffectually, to persuade her back; she was ready to receive him,…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 Port Royal, April 25, 1863. The questions arising from the unsettled condition of family relations among these South-Carolina blacks have been among the most delicate which came up for decision before…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 The marriage relation is, in general, held sacred. I have spoken in a previous letter of a negro now serving a term of ten years in the District of Columbia Penitentiary,…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 be sure that they had at least that many; express your belief that they had not five thousand, and he will laugh at the idea of their having more than forty-five…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 from their rebel masters and came to our lines at the greatest risks, and well knowing that dreadful punishments awaited them if caught, I think you will find in that some…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 I have endeavored to give in these letters an exact account of what I saw in these Sea Islands, of the negroes, their qualities and character. I can sum up all,…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy New and Important Books PUBLISHED BY CHARLES T. EVANS, 448 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. * * * Copies sent by mail free of postage on receipt of the annexed prices. Sunshine in Thought.…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy Companion to the Rebellion Record; COMPRISING IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE GREAT REBELLION, not included in the regular issue. Parts 1 and 2, illustrated with Portraits, 50 cents each. Part 3 will…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy THE REBELLION RECORD. A Diary of American Events. Edited by Frank Moore. Five Volumes, Royal 8vo, with 59 Portraits on Steel, with Maps and full Indices. Price, Cloth, $21; Sheep, $22.50; Half-Calf,…- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
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Image 34 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Nordhoff, Charles - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1863
About this Item
Title
- The freedmen of South-Carolina: some account of their appearance, character, condition, and peculiar customs
Names
- Nordhoff, Charles, 1830-1901
- African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New-York, Charles T. Evans, 1863.
Headings
- - Freed persons--South Carolina
- - African Americans--South Carolina--Port Royal
Notes
- - Cover title.
- - LC copy 1 replaced by microfilm.
Medium
- 27 p. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E185.93.S7 N8
- E185 .A254 container N, no. 211 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 15465. Source unknown.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12005602
Online Format
- online text
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