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Of freedom unto all : an archaeological examination of the Port Royal experiment

Trinkley, Michael
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Chicora Foundation
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Abstract
Essay providing a brief history of the "Port Royal experiment" (Beaufort County, S.C.) and its archaeological remains, on territory captured early in the Civil War by Union troops in which former slaves farmed land abandoned by plantation owners with the help of several private Northern charity organizations.
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1987
Keywords
African Americans--Sea Islands--History, Beaufort County (S.C.)--Antiquities, South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
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Copyright 2001. For more information contact, South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201.
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https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/33292
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