The South Carolina Historical Magazine; Volume 104, Number 1, January 2003
Charleston, SC: The South Carolina Historical Society, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 76 pages. Footnotes. Tables. Illustrations. This issue has two main articles. The first is The Free Black Population of Columbia, South Carolina in 1860: A Snapshot of Occupation and Personal Wealth by David O. Stowell. The second is Bankless in Beaufort: A Reexamination of the 1873 Failure of the Freedmans Saving Branch at Beaufort, South Carolina by John Martin Davis, Jr. David O. Stowell (1954- ) was born in Rochester, New York. David earned his B.A. from the University of South Carolina. He earned his doctorate in history from SUNY, University of Buffalo. He then taught at Keene State College in Keene, NH. John Martin Davis, Jr. was member of the Philosophical Society of Texas who authored or co-authored five books, including Texas Land Grants 1750-1900: A Documentary History (2016) and Civil War Taxes: A Documentary History 1861-1900 (2019). He worked for a time in Savannah, and this article is associated with his time in the South. The South Carolina Historical Society is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1855 to preserve South Carolina's rich historical legacy. The SCHS is the state's oldest and largest private repository of books, letters, journals, maps, drawings, and photographs about South Carolina's history. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, first published in 1900, is the only scholarly periodical entirely devoted to South Carolina history. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: South Carolina, Freedmans Savings, Beaufort, Bank Failure, Freed Blacks, Antebellum, Columbia, SC, Occupations, Wealth, David Stowell, John Martin Davis, Pecksniff, Labor, Trades, African-Americans
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