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African American History Publications

The Many Faces of Slavery
PC12.... $14.75
The Many Faces of Slavery is a compilation of eleven annotated documents from the holdings of the South Carolina Archives. The documents offer a microscopic view of slavery in antebellum South Carolina. Sometimes poignant and often disturbing, these documents offer insights into the lives of South Carolina's slave population. Topics include manumission, contracts, maroons, religion, crime and punishment, miscegenation, and family relationships.

This profusely illustrated volume is indexed and includes an introductory essay and notes on the classroom use of primary documents.

African American Genealogical Research
Paul R. Begley, Alexia J. Helsley, and Steven D. Tuttle 28 pages. photos
PR4....$6.75
Welcome to the exciting and challenging world of African American genealogical research in South Carolina. This guide provides a context for researchers in this field. It describes particular records in the Archives and in other collections, and it explains how those records can be used. Call numbers given refer to books in the reference room at the Archives.

Topics in African American History 1: Stepping stone to the Supreme Court: Clarendon County, South Carolina
Benjamin F. Hornsby, Jr. 26 Pages. Photos.
PH13....$4.75
This book describes how Briggs vs. Elliott -- a Clarendon County case -- made its way to the Supreme Court as part of Brown vs. The Board of Education in 1954.

Topics in African American History 3: Whom we would never more see: History and archaeology recover the lives and deaths of African American Civil War soldiers on Folly Island, South Carolina
Steven D. Smith. 50 pages. Maps/Photos.
PH17....$6.75
Four days before the Christmas of 1863, Private William Herbert of the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry died of typhoid and was buried on Folly Island, South Carolina, 1,070 miles from his snow-covered home in Nova Scotia. This is the story of his final year of life as a soldier, his rediscovery by archaeologists, and his eventual reburial with at least seventeen fellow soldiers in Beaufort National Cemetery.

Genealogy Starter Kit
PR3....$6.75
For those who are just starting to do family history research, we have produced this kit composed of six helpful booklets packaged together to get new genealogists off to a solid start. The Genealogy Starter Kit includes the following titles:

• Research in the Archives
• Destroyed County Records 
• Census Records 
• Selected Civil War Bibliography
• Sources for Genealogists
• African American Genealogical Research

South Carolina’s African American Confederate Pensioners 1923-1925
Alexia Jones Helsley
South Carolina Department of Archives and History
140 pages, Perfect bound, introduction, photos, appendices, index
PH28 .... $14.75
This publication details the services a group of African American gave during the Civil War and supplies other personal information as well. As some of history's heroes, these individuals served as cooks, servants, and teamsters, built coastal fortifications, and manned essential industries. Pensioners are listed alphabetically, and other names within the entries are indexed.