1850 REVEREND OWNS SLAVES. Rare South Carolina Reverend Slave Ownership Document Evangelist Light scrapes

Light scrapes

Cassell and Company

1780 and presided over the college during the American Revolution

198pp complete and separately published

1850 REVEREND OWNS SLAVES. Rare South Carolina Reverend Slave Ownership Document Evangelist Light scrapesA very finely preserved c. 1850 document, likely a taxation inventory, records the inventory of several citizens from Laurensville, South Carolina. Among the pots, pans, cows, wood, etc., we find the only citizen on the roster to own a slave is the pastor, Reverend William Hitt of Laurensville, South Carolina. This is a classic example of one of the leading strategies of plantation owners of the 19th century in the south. They would often gift the