South Carolina African Americans – Everyday Life

The early days - life for South Carolina's African-American slaves during the 1700s
Manigault's Gowrie: A starting point - an introduction to the contrasts of white and black, master and slave
Houses that offered little cover - a look at the typical slave "home"
– Hewn-timer slave cabins - Florence, 1836

Hunger and other hardships - evidence of the meager rations on which slaves were forced to subsist, including lack of warm clothing and shoes
The brutal work regimen - describes "gang" and "task" accountability systems, as well as the grueling labor specific to rice cultivation
Life on McLeod Plantation - Charleston County - traces the history of a group of James Island slaves and freedmen from the end of the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century