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Emancipation Day in South Carolina
Image depicts the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation under the "Emancipation Oak" at Fort Saxton on January 1, 1863. After this, the members of the 1st SCV were finally, legally, freed. In the crowd are members of the USCT, with 1st SCV color…
The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten
Charlotte Forten, later Grimké, taught freedpeople at the Penn School on St. Helena's Island. She wrote of her experience for the Atlantic Monthly during the war.
Compiled records showing serviceof military units in volunteer Union organizations
These records, compiled by the Adjutant General's Office, help us trace the movements of the 1st South Carolina, and why they moved.
The Freed Blacks of South Carolina: Letter from Mr. J.M. McKim to Stephen Colwell, Esq. Chairman of the Port Royal Relief Committee
In this clipping from the abolitionist newspaper, Prince Rivers is quoted and Robert and Hannah Smalls are mentioned.