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Slave badges and the slave-hire system in Charleston, South Carolina, 1783-1865 / Harlan Greene and Harry S. Hutchins, Jr., with Brian E. Hutchins.
Penn Museum Library F279.C49 N425 2004
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, Harlan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Law and legislation--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- Enslaved persons--Employment--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- Badges--South Carolina--Charleston--History.
- Badges.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Enslaved persons--Employment.
- Slavery--Law and legislation.
- Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- Charleston (S.C.)--History.
- Charleston (S.C.)--Economic conditions.
- South Carolina--Charleston.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 194 pages, A-H pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]
- Summary:
- The slave-hire system of Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1700s and the 1800s produced a curious object the slave badge. The badges were intended to legislate the practice of hiring a slave from one master to another, and slaves were required by law to wear them. Slave badges have become quite collectible and have excited both scholarly and popular interest in recent years.
- This work documents how the slave-hire system in Charleston came about, how it worked, who was in charge of it, and who enforced the laws regarding slave badges. Numerous badge makers are identified, and photographs of badges, with commentary on what the data stamped on them mean, a e included. The authors located income and expense statements for Charles ton from 1783 to 1865, and deduced how many slaves were hired out in the city every year from 1800 on. The work also discusses forgeries of slave badges, now quite common.
- Contents:
- Part 1. The Badge Laws: A Summary, 1670-1866 13
- 1. 1670-1822: Laws of the Colony and the Early Republic 15
- 2. 1823-1866: Laws of the Antebellum and Civil War Period 43
- Part 2. The System: Annual Recapitulations of Income and Expenses and a Guide to the Badges 67
- 3. 1800-1810 69
- 4. 1811-1820 88
- 5. 1821-1830 100
- 6. 1831-1840 109
- 7. 1841-1850 120
- 8. 1851-1860 135
- 9. 1861-1865 158
- Afterword: A Note on Counterfeits 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786417293
- OCLC:
- 53459029
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