Berkeley Plantation Slave Records. The records presented in this module come from the university of virginia and duke university. Included here are 670 distinct records as made available by the california department of insurance.
Berkeley county is located in southeastern south carolina, on the atlantic ocean near charleston, south carolina. The following year, “dean berkeley baptised three of his negroes, ‘philip, anthony, and agnes berkeley’”, the records show. In contrast, the customary slave inventory records men first, from most valuable to least valuable, then women listed in a similar way, followed by children.
The library has recently acquired the second set of plantation records in proquest history vault.
The exception is the series of field office recordsfor new orleans (naramicrofilmm1483, 10 rolls),which containssuch records as labor contracts, hospital registers, complaint Thus, the inventory begins with a superannuated (retired) slave who is valued at 0 pounds. The plantations along the rivers in berkeley county grew rice whereas the interior plantations grew cotton. General south carolina genealogical information.
