ENSLAVED PEOPLE AND SLAVE OWNERS | Edgefield, South Carolina

Driven by labor demands from new cotton plantations in the Deep South, the northern slave states sold over a million enslaved people who were taken to the Deep South in a forced migration. The total population of enslaved people in the South eventually reached four million.
February is African-American history month. Some may ask “Why celebrate African-American history, isn’t that American history?” Absolutely, but unfortunately for hundreds of years, much of the history related to those of African descent was either totally ignored or misrepresented. South Carolina plays a major role in this more inclusive look at American history,
A search for records of an enslaved person will be much more difficult if you do not know at least two of the following:
the name of the enslaved person and the slave owner, including possible variations in spelling - bear in mind that not all enslaved people had surnames
where they lived, including the parish if possible
as much information as possible about dates of births, marriages and deaths

[@lspproductions]

It's amazing how we out numbered them... Fear is REAL. I am appreciating this series. Thanks you so much for sharing these stories that need to be told. Excellent video, Vee-ology~

[@MelanatednNature]

Exactly

[@DLewis-kt9ok]

Not fear, civility; a number of rebellions were an attempt to exert rights according to the constitution.

[@libbybrownenyc]

My family is from Edgefield. Thank you for sharing this.

[@jacquelyngriffin2206]

Mines too my whole family

[@AfrikaAmor08]

Wow! All this history? You are a great teacher! This is so informative. Thanks for educating us ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@Rosie-bt7ne]

6:42 shows possibly my family name there. Simkins, now Simpkins. My great grandfather was Albert Simpkins from South Carolina, relocated to Millen, Jenkins County, GA. On his side of the family he is the dead end in the Census records available online. I’m researching lately just to have this info while my elders are still around to confirm certain info.

[@marcellajones7463]

The picture of the man on the stairs of Magnolia Dale is my GREAT-GREAT Grandfather Alfred Butler. The Historical Society sent the picture and article regarding him to me. My family is Butler, Ready, Shaw, Steven's ancestry from Edgefield County.

[@shaffy856]

I am Butler, Moss, and Burroughs from Edgefield

[@ritalewis7466]

I’m doing research on my family history and censuses. Johnson is my mother’s maiden name. Thanks a lot.

[@VondessaJ]

It’s so much fun researching and it’s the information you come across….love it!

[@BBReviewsIt]

Great video!!! I was shocked when you said there were a larger number of slaves in Edgefield compared to the rest of the population.

[@augustusbrown5320]

This was a sundown town as well.

[@unknownnation9465]

​@augustusbrown5320 thank u for letting me know that

[@natalielebron5532]

Thank you for all your research

[@VondessaJ]

Very welcome

[@sheayonce7451]

My maternal grandmother and her entire side (Medlock) is from Saluda, Edgefield County. Thank u for this

[@chellelechelle]

My great grandmother was a Mobley from Saluda, South Carolina & from records some of her family was in Edgefield also!

[@LadyBugseafoodBoil51]

Hello Fam I'm here to support

[@CoreyHarrisinterviews]

My great great great grandmother was born enslaved in Edgefield in 1803. Thank you for this video! 🙏🏾

[@Soulaan]

Mine too

[@robleeg]

I can't find mine

[@beckywoodward695]

Can you please find something on the Deloach plantation in edgefield /Trenton s.c I found the Deloach cemetery that is on the location of the plantation I'm not sure I think they had a tobacco farm. Michael Deloach came here from France there are books in the library in edgefeild SC. I've never seen a video of the plantation

[@CartersEat]

Smith, Willians, Johnson... I'm blown away by the clothes.. but the skirt plantation was gorgeous

[@kathrynhochman7667]

The narrator calls it skirts, but the group is known as the Red Shirts. Google it.

[@StrutTIGER1870]

My dads father is from Johnston and so was my great grandmother on my moms side of the family. In college I met a woman who’s now the librarian at the same college i attended in S.C.

[@CartersEat]

Here learning and watching

[@michiganguardiannews9205]

WOW! I have never seen anything like the slave owners record book. It's amazing how people recorded their inhumanity to man. Think about this. My great grand mother was alive during slavery. I knew my great grandmother and thinking that this person whom I grew up with as a kid and knowing that she herself had to grow up in a society that permitted slave ownership shows that slavery isn't in our distant past. Emancipation is only a little over 150 tears old. Slavery in America went on for hundreds of years prior. Emancipation is relatively new while the enslavement of others goes back all through out history. So humans seem to have "natural" instinct to want to enslave others. This is important to understand especially in this day and age. When we hear the MAGA (Make America Great Again) crowd say that they just want to make America great again what they really are saying is they want America back to pre-civil rights time and many would like to see it pre civil war time. If you think this couldn't happen then you would be grossly mistaken and there would be a good chance that I could own you in the future. Why do I say that? Look at what the U.S. Supreme Court did recently with Roe v Wade. For 50 years women had rights to their own bodies now those rights are gone. Emancipation is only a little over 150 years old. What's to stop the U.S. Supreme Court from reversing that decision? Nothing. In fact this court is working in that direction. They took a women's right to her own body why wouldn't they end the right to colored people to be free? The MAGA party is clearly heading that way. The U.S. Supreme Court is stacked with MAGA justices and they will chip at our rights until they come to the question on slavery and then the justices will look back at the other rights they took away and it will be easier for them to justify in ending emancipation. Ask a MAGA republican "when was America great?"

[@stephanie50climbing86]

sometimes this history is hard to hear when you put yourself in their place in your mind.

[@biancaerving3257]

Right on sista

[@miguelgeorgemorales6133]

my grandmother family came from down south , when they arrive to samana they had a plate something like a badge with the name Charleston SC , surname of the family who went down there are , King, Shepherd , Smith , Johnson , Coats , Green , and other

[@clarkie246]

I am from the island of BARBADOS and we have alot of persons with the name Shepherd.we are Historically connected to South Carolina.

[@miguelgeorgemorales6133]

@@clarkie246 I was raised in the island of Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬 also there have many connections

[@ladym2668]

This is European Textbook History. Its to many University Scholarly books out now on Archive.org and Library of congress

[@flminnc]

Where can we get a copy book of Edgefield slave names used in your video?

[@VondessaJ]

Not sure about a copy of the whole book but you can check with Edgefield library

[@LeOhio817]

I purchased this for my own research back in May, from the Old Edgefield Genealogical Society. They have an online shop.

[@miguelgeorgemorales6133]

my grandmother great grandparent was Elizabeth Green and Josepth Wrigth

[@indiagraham284]

My grandparents are from edgefield and their names are smith and quarles. I’m researching my family’s history.

[@juicykenni]

Have you found any Hazel or Abney?

[@jacquelinemuqui]

Marlboro and Dillon County. Anyone know the Bethea and/or Donaldson family? TIA.

[@burrkittykat]

My family has an ancestor that was enslaved by the Watson family in Ridge Spring/Edgefield, SC. I hope to visit to learn more.

[@MelanatednNature]

Really

[@CDubb-iu2mx]

My family is also Watson from a plantation in SC

[@stephaniejackson3699]

Heart breaking and yes located 3 5 x great uncle’s this book is located in the local archives ad some library library

[@spiritualminded5448]

Can u do Orangeburg, sc

[@VondessaJ]

I will try…I know some about the area…I’m from Denmark

[@piscesyoungblood7152]

I'm doing my family Slave history and I found out Samuel youngblood own the youngblood plantation in SC

[@VondessaJ]

I’ve heard of Youngblood before

[@user-yd9zu9ji4h]

My family is from Fort Lawn, South Carolina.

[@jamestucker9524]

My grandparents and great grandparents were born in Charleston , South Carolina. They may have had an original name; but since they had been on the Middleton plantation that was the name they used. I still have distant cousins who use it as their last name. My great grandmother was Mary Alice Middleton before she married.

[@MelanatednNature]

New subscriber I'm in Augusta I'd love to connect to ask you a few questions

[@VondessaJ]

I'm not far from you. I am about 35 mins from Augusta. Yes we can do a meet maybe this week.

[@MelanatednNature]

@@VondessaJ ok I messaged you on Instagram I'd rather put my info there

[@icharli3345]

& left for Augusta GA

[@najahphillips7103]

Farlow, Hightower/Jackson family were in Edgefield since early 1700's. If anyone has family with those surnames, please...let's link.

[@LeOhio817]

If you haven’t already, check out the Genealogy Adventures channel on KZbin. Donya Williams, one of the hosts, is a Hightower relative.

[@najahphillips7103]

@@LeOhio817 Thank you so much. I found them in 2021. I haven't reached out, but when she mentioned her "Eve" relative and the breeding that went on, I thought we must be related. I love their show and all the history they cover.

[@shaffy856]

Hello I am related to The Buter moss family that married into the Hightower family. My Great grandmother is Elizabeth Burroughs l, her sister married a Hightower

[@najahphillips7103]

@@shaffy856 peace, are you or those Hightower's in SC?

[@diamondharley2810]

My great grandfather Jack Jones name was seen in the book 😮

[@miguelgeorgemorales6133]

what about the free slave who went to Dominican republic to a place they call Samana , in 1824 and 1844 i have a list of name

[@indigenouscoppercoloredabo7410]

More like prisoners of war who the European captors enslaved and relocated throughout our God given lands.

[@sunii4264]

Looking for SC Phoenix's.

[@augustusbrown5320]

My family are from Edgefield! #Adams #Thomas

[@antoinettevilla5678]

My ancestors were from Edgefield, South Carolina. Surname: Peterson

[@tracymiller1149]

Many of my Edgefield County ancestors owned slaves. For example, my 3x great-grandfather John Rinehart, Jr., and his son William Rinehart, my great-great-grandfather, owned slaves. We know this from their wills and the Slave schedules.

[@soniamuwendi5279]

Please make an effort to share the names of those who were enslaved. We are looking for our Ancestors!

[@icharli3345]

This is where my family is from last name Walton

[@MoonHawk01]

My people come from Edgefield Sc. If you have the Surnames Weaver,Perkins,Nabrit,Abraham,Brunson,Davis,Blair,Bussey,Blaylock, or Oliphant YOU ARE DEFINITELY KIN hmu 😂

[@najahphillips7103]

There is an Oliphant in the household of one of my ancestors. Been wondering about the connection and where they came from...?

[@MoonHawk01]

@@najahphillips7103 Me too my only Oliphant ancestor is Rebecca Oliphant born 1834

[@najahphillips7103]

@@MoonHawk01 ooo weee I'm going to get back to you on this. Gotta go back into the archives 🧐😁

[@MoonHawk01]

@@najahphillips7103 most definitely I’m here and I recently gotten further back on my genealogy I have some Ingram,Reddy/Reddick ancestry coming out of Barnwell SC

[@WanekaMatthews]

My Dads Hometown!!!!!

[@cbryant9078]

I wonder how Daniel Polk Becomes my third great grand father he is also from around edgefield

[@cbryant9078]

iam Moses Williams descendant of edgefield sc the story goes he and his several wives birthed 42 girls and 3 boys this includes Pickens Settles who was a grandchild of Moses Williams

[@loricoombs5247]

Vee we all need this education thank you for the real truth but THANK GOD FOR Martin Luther king and others made the way for freedom .THANK God WE ARE FREE INDEED IN JESUS NAME!

[@antoinefreeman5188]

Freeman's ancestors was here..... anyone related

[@msnia2594]

Moore, Gibson, Johnson

[@anniejones5806]

My grandmother last name was Johnson came from the Carolina need to talk to you

[@VondessaJ]

Hi DM me on Instagram…OfficiallyVeeology

[@MelanatednNature]

@@VondessaJ can I reach out as well

[@VondessaJ]

@@MelanatednNature sure

[@tyhreneshajones1381]

My last name is Jones

[@robleeg]

My great grandmother last name was Jones.

[@dustinw6681]

My GGG parents were slaves here The Dorn's

[@andrea214]

Harrison’s and Allen’s

[@ThinkOutTheBox360]

Allen👀

[@GeeBee212]

@@ThinkOutTheBox360 I have Allen's there too!

[@ThinkOutTheBox360]

@@GeeBee212 that’s over by Greenwood right ? I’m in Laurens SC

[@GeeBee212]

@@ThinkOutTheBox360 My Allens were in Aiken, McCormick and Edgefield with most now in Augusta. I have Harrisons in Colleton County.

[@imfromhereiaintcomehere6921]

🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶

[@MarkWestbrook-kq9wr]

I thought a man or a boy was called a buck

[@sabeenie21]

Dobbs’s