South Carolina – Nineteenth Century White Opinions of Slavery

South Carolina SC African-American History African-Americans in SC, 1525-1865 19th Century White Opinions of Slavery This collection of letters, diaries, and books written by nineteenth-century white South Carolinians documents a variety of attitudes toward slavery.

Documents by White South Carolinians

• On The Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood - by John George Clinkscales of Spartanburg
  
  
• A Woman Rice Planter - Georgetown
  
  
• Two diaries from Middle St John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865
  
  
• Margaret Ann Meta Morris Grimball, 1810-1881 - Charleston and Colleton
  
  
• Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War - Nancy Bostick De Saussure - 1837-1915
  
  
• Personal Correspondence of James Milling - Fairfield District - 1861-1864
  
  
• A Diary from Dixie - Mary Boykin Chesnut - 1823-1886 - scroll down
  
  
• Negro Plot. An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Blacks of the City of Charleston, South Carolina - Charleston Intendant (Mayor) James Hamilton - 1822 - Denmark Vesey conspiracy
  
  
• A number of strategies to reduce the black population, including the encouragement of Irish immigration - anonymous - 1822 - Denmark Vesey conspiracy