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Greenville

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Hampton 

Horry

Jasper

Kershaw

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Laurens

Lee

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Marion 

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Williamsburg

York

• Surname Listing

  • African American Surnames

• Queries

  • Listing by surname

• Slavery

  • Estate Sales & Runaway Slave Ads

  • Public Sale of Negroes by Richard Clagett

  • Runaway Slave Ads for Charleston, S.C.

  • Douthit, James. Slave Birth Records, 1824-1849, Anderson County, SC

  • Will of James Douthit, Anderson County, SC

• Plantations

  • Magnolia Plantation

  • So. Carolina Plantations by Counties

  • Drayton Hall

  • Middleton Place Plantation

  • The Gullah: Rice, Slavery & the Sierra Leone-American Connection

  • Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations, Revolution - Civil War

• Probate Records

  • Boulware, Nancy P.

  • Will of David Gavin

• Bible Records

  • Dr. N. B. Hall

• State Resources

  • Vital Records - S.C. Dept. of Health & Environmental Control

  • Dept. of Archives and History

  • Directory of Historical Records Repositories

  • State Museum - African American

• State-Wide

  • African Americans in South Carolina 1525 - 1865

  • Bibliographies of Slavery in the South

  • Abbeville County partial listing of 1860 Slave Schedule

  • Timeline of African American history in So. Carolina 1525 - 1997

• Military Records

  • Pension Application of Harriet Jeffers, daughter of Berry Jeffers

  • Pension Application of Andrew Ferguson

  • Pension Application of Rowland Harris, son of Edward Harris

  • Pension Application of Gideon Griffin

  • Pension Application of Allen Jeffers

• Freedman's Bureau Records Online

  • Marriage Rules for Freedman

  • Freedman's Savings & Trust Depositors

  • Charleston Freedman's Bureau Records Pt. 1

  • Charleston Freedman's Bureau Records Pt. 2

• Submit Data for So. Carolina

  • Surnames, Queries

  • Probate Records

  • Research Notes

  • Family Histories & Descendant Reports