Discovery Company. obtainable records of the holder. task, but it is beyond the scope of this transcription. Carolina, in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. It is estimated by this transcriber that in 1860, slaveholders of 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 living in the southern States. changes in county boundaries. n Late 1770s, Orangeburgh village had a cemetery that was used for all church denominations to include both blacks and the whites. n In 1831, a slave named Myers was expelled from the Methodist Church. 1846-50 near the intersection of present-day Vance Road and Bass Drive in the rural Dantzler community near Holly Hill, in rural Orangeburg County, South Carolina, is a porticoed, two-story Greek Revival raised cottage of frame construction, set on a partially enclosed, brick pier foundation Photograph: Epics/Getty Images. According to The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery, in the section "Judaism in the Antebellum South" which begins at page 384:. WebHistorical Background. Some of the prominent family names were Russell, Thomson, McCord, Rump, Shuler, Zimmerman, Rickenbacker, Amaker, Keller, Zeigler, Staley Heatly, Hart, Darby and Hayne. It says "a few" Jews owned plantations My father's name is Felix Dantzler, my mother is Alfreda Conyers Dantzler.I am one of four children born to them.The others are Felicia Dantzler Hope, Felix Dantzler Jr. and Theresa Charone Dantzler Johnson.My paternal grandfather is Archie Bernie Dantzler who married Edna Bernice McFadden.My grandfather's father is Pendant Dantzler of Orangeburg, SC. Plantation is fine, as long as were clear what they were. WebPoint of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin: Edisto Island 85003122 Quinby Plantation House-Halidon Hill Plantation: Huger 97000359 Ravenwood Plantation: Neyles: Edisto Island Crowfield Hall Goose Creek: 07000098 Dantzler Plantation: Holly Hill 74001851. lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate 1878 Dr. The idea that that would have nothing to do with what the contemporary landscape of inequality looks like today is morally and intellectually disingenuous. Rates were $1.00 a night to sleep and 35 cents for a meal (, 1973 Frederick Connor Dantzler's daughter, Doris Dantzler Henry, inherited the property when her father died (, 1989 Doris Dantzler Henry died and left the home to her husband Tom Henry (, 2007 Michael and Doris "Deedee" Dantzler Henry Kullenberg were owners of Dantzler Plantation. WebDr. WebDuring the 1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, enslaved individuals were recorded separately in what were called slave schedules. When too few of the Guanches were left alive from disease and overwork, African slaves were imported. WebDantzler Family Collection Slavery & Reconstruction A digital display of select historic materials associated with the Frederick Dantzler and Lewis Dantzler Family Collections. To check a master surname list for other States They were intergenerational sites of torture and exploitation. Others tell him there was no such a thing as a good slave master. may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living in the same State or County. Estimates of the number of former slaves who used the surname of a former owner in 1870, The scene is one of many searing moments Smith captures in his New York Times bestseller, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.. such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves. We would recognize that the reasons why Americas economic, social and political dynamics exist in the way they do are not by accident. 26 Jan 2023: Changes were made to improve the performance of this collection. Oral histories included an account from an enslaved woman who recalled how her master would come at night to rape her sister and den have de nerve to come round de next day and ask her how she feel.. in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported with their full name, including surname. A print from The Slave Trade and its Abolition, edited by John Langdon-Davies, Jonathan Cape, London, 1965. Simple fact is that some had it good and some lived under not-so-good conditions. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, S.C. (iStock) Article. Deedee is the great-great-grand niece of Dr. Lewis Dantzler. Out of this racism, out of this experience of being inundated with White supremacist violence, Black people were able to create something that would go on to define and create music and art and language and literature that would shape how America exists and understand itself. The severed heads were ceramic sculptures a memorial to the largest slave rebellion in US history. To see this page as it is meant to appear, please enable your Javascript! included 8,108 whites, 205 "free colored" and 16,583 slaves. We are surely descended from the Orangeburg Dantzler's. MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Orangeburg County population Researchers seeking information about slave owners may find slave schedules useful because of the specific information they provide about slave owners holdings. What was the psychological impact on men who did that? n In 1790, 746 whites had slaves working their fields. We see this most famously through Thomas Jefferson. They were, in effect, selling their own children off into slavery. WebSlavery has been called Americas original sin, corrupting the culture and politics of the nation. For the most part, North Carolina slaves resisted the power of their masters by individual and collective actions that made their William Dollarhide, The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes, Heritage Quest: Bountiful, Utah, 2000. I always think now about the woman who opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016 alongside the Obama family, who rang the bell. From the moment Black folks arrives on these shores, they were fighting for liberation, Smith says. WebDantzler Plantation, also known as Four Hole Plantation House or SunnySide House, is a historic plantation house located near Holly Hill, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. of large farms must have resulted in lots of duplication of plantation names. How do you not lose hope for the future of this country when youve met so many White people who are in denial about slaverys impact? The main block is connected at the rear to a .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}1+12-story kitchen structure. Charleston County saw an increase in colored population of almost two thirds between 1860 Bethany Pace kneels at the simple stone monuments that mark the graves of slaves that were her kin, in Sweet Briar, Virginia, in 2015. Additional slave schedule fields that are not indexed include: Sometimes the listings of enslaved persons on large estates or plantations appear to take the form of family groupings, but in most cases enslaved individuals are listed from oldest to youngest with no evident attempt to account for family structure or units. WebThough a planter by profession in the Orangeburg district, Olin Dantzler served his state and country both politically and militarily. Your email address will not be published. Some participants were unaware of R&R.coms existence or its vast trove of maps, and genealogical links. Plantation owner Pierce Mease Butler (whose grandfather was one of the signers of the Constitution and author of the fugitive slave clause) sold over 430 slaves to satisfy his creditors. 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% of African Americans were enumerated as free in 1860, with about half of those census, because published indexes almost always do not include the slave census. Please subscribe to keep reading. The house, constructed ca. It features a front portico. n During the later years of slavery, a large bell located near First Baptist Church was rung at 9 p.m. in the winter and 10 p.m. in the summer to signify curfew time for the slaves. Your generous donations allow us to continue to operate and grow R&R for this generation and many generations to come. Yet by the mid-nineteenth century, cotton production was synonymous with slavery in the United States. n Slavery census: 1790-12,412 whites, 5,931 slaves, 170 free blacks; 1840-6,321 whites, 11,934 slaves, 264 free blacks; 1860-8,180 whites, 16,583 slaves and 205 free blacks. The four million Black people were worth more than all the manufacturing in this country before the Civil War began. Planted in a garden bed in front of the fence were the heads of 55 Black men impaled on metal rods, their eyes shut and jaws clenched in anguish. Black people were worth more than every bank, factory, and railroad combined. The term "County" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. A portrait of Civil War-era fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North in the mid-1860s. Do you support reparations for African Americans? A statue at Goree Island in Senegal, known for being a center of the Atlantic slave trade from the 15th to the 19th century. International Paper Company purchased the mill in 1928 and operated it through the end of the 20th century. Slaves were enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind People had ways of justifying it to themselves. census, then making the link to finding that ancestor as a slave requires advanced research techniques involving all You are the visitor to this page. Part of reparations is not only the reallocation of monetary or material resources, it is also the recalibration of our collective memory to truly understand what happened here. When people talk about what makes America exceptional, what made us so economically powerful, they often talk about American ingenuity, can-do spirit, and people like John D. Rockefeller. Marli E Weiner, a historian at the University of Maine, disagrees. Taken from Szucs, Loretto Dennis, "Research in Census Records." The page numbers used are the rubber stamped numbers in the upper right corner n At the beginning of the Civil War, Orangeburgh city was the home of 468 whites, 423 slaves and six free blacks. Rusty Robinson, the co-founder of Roots and Recall, rarely provides public programs, but did have something to add to a genealogy discussion at the local library. The Dantzler Plantation House is significant as an outstanding local example of mid-nineteenth-century Greek Revival architecture with various later alterations and additions designed to emulate this Greek Revival style, as well as for its significant and intriguing interior modifications that reflect the changing fortunes of its owners and the various uses of plantation architecture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. PURPOSE. An The increasing costs associated with hosting, development and maintenance of the site are covered by a few passionate individuals. % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the Their leaders were tortured and beheaded, with their heads posted on stakes as a warning to other slaves. 2015-21, Carolina Historical Consulting, LLC. Richard Reid is president of the Orangeburg Historical and Genealogical Society. Some participants were unaware of R&R.coms existence or its vast trove of maps, and genealogical links. Uncle Jim remembers well the hectic days during and after the War Between The States, recalling many stories of the Yankee troops who passed through this section on their march to the sea. Census data on African Americans in the Although the Emancipation Proclamation started in 1863, slave life continued its path in Orangeburg until the end of the Civil War in 1865. n During the Revolutionary War, Capt. 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The blues and jazz and hip-hop, and the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance, and literature from people like Frederick Douglass and Zora Neale Hurston to Alice Walker, those are shaped by a legacy of trauma. Anti-Black racism manifested through slavery is one of the worst things this country has ever done, alongside Native American genocide. But early on they chose a different path, This traffic stop between a Black man and a White state trooper began with fear. ancestor not shown to hold slaves on the 1860 slave census could have held slaves on an earlier census, so those films can be The sort of slippery slope argument is not convincing to me. This database provides details Along the way he speaks with tour guides, descendants of slaves, tourists and even members of a neo-Confederate group who tell him that slavery wasnt the main cause of the Civil War. 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