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Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families

Topics discussed include secession crisis of 1850; temperance; African Americans during slavery, Reconstruction, and after, including sales and hiring-out of slaves; agriculture and cultivation of cotton; migration; Civil War; railroads; poor cotton crop in 1866 due to weather conditions; economic conditions in S.C., Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere after the Civil War, including migration of "Yankee farmers" from the north; and farm labor and sharecropping.

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  • "Topics discussed include secession crisis of 1850; temperance; African Americans during slavery, Reconstruction, and after, including sales and hiring-out of slaves; agriculture and cultivation of cotton; migration; Civil War; railroads; poor cotton crop in 1866 due to weather conditions; economic conditions in S.C., Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere after the Civil War, including migration of "Yankee farmers" from the north; and farm labor and sharecropping."@en
  • "Other topics include Atlantic Phosphate Company (Charleston, S.C.); Ku Klux Klan; Flynn family of Union, S.C.; sale, ca. Nov. 1911, of a plantation hunting resort near Georgetown, S.C.; and political and temperance speeches by B.H. Rice; letter, 8 June 1868, from C. A. Wallace to Mary Ann Wallace, discussing the status of the family livestock and reports news and gossip concerning several recent marriages in their circle of friends; letter, 2 December 1870, from State Constable John B. Hubbard to Benjamin Herndon Rice [possibly related to the Ku Klux Klan's actions and subsequent litigation]: "I understand a United States Marshall will be up as early as possible, and he will have Warrant for the arrest of several in the vicinity.""@en
  • "Letters, 1866-1885, of James Monroe Wallace, his sister Mary Ann Wallace, and the children of their deceased brother William M. Wallace re J.M. Wallace's guardianship of their estates; business records, 1867-1932, re the mercantile firm of Rice & Coleman, Union, including letters to Robert Lowry Coleman re cotton and tobacco market conditions and from overseer W.T. Dickenson."@en
  • "Correspondence, bills and receipts, statements of cotton sales, land papers, account books, and other materials relating to Benjamin Herndon Rice's plantation in Union County, S.C.; papers document farming and family life during antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction and subsequent decades into the 20th century; topics discussed include the cultivation, harvesting and marketing of cotton; plantation management and African-American slaves; and business dealings with cotton factors in Charleston, S.C. (Rice, Sims & Barksdale; Pelzer, Rodgers & Co.; and A.J. Salinas & Son)."@en
  • "Papers re textile industry in S.C., including Union Mills, S.C., Orangeburg Cotton Mills, and letters to R.L. Coleman's son, William Coleman (1875-1924), president of Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company, Whitmire, S.C., re expansion of the mill in 1911; other correspondents include William Ashmead Courtenay, Thomas Cary Duncan, Andrew Simonds, W.B. Smith Whaley, Jeanette Winter Wallace, R.W. Wallace, John P. Wallace."@en

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  • "Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families"@en

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