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Biography of Robert Witherspoon prepared, May 1899, by his granddaughter Frances "Fanny" Louise Witherspoon Harrison (1865-1900).
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Oversize bound volume, album, 1810-1864.
Address by Robert Witherspoon to the White Rose Society of Yorkville, South Carolina, relating his impressions of General Robert E. Lee while a student at Washington College when Lee was president. "Most students stood in mortal dread of being summoned before Genl. Lee ... two instances of students who being summoned for a second offense left college...before they would appear in answer to a second summons."
In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers, Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved peoples, the shape of their daily lives depended primarily on the particular environment in which they lived and worked, and Pearson examines three distinctive settings in the province: the extensive rice and indigo plantations of the coastal plain; the streets, workshops, and wharves of Charleston; and the farms and estates of the upcountry. In doing so, he provides a fine-grained analysis of how enslaved laborers interacted with their enslavers in the workplace and other locations where they encountered one an...
Contains the Heathley, Donnom, Crawford, White, Dunlap and Jones families.