A History of James Island Slave Descendents & Plantation Owners

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A History of James Island Slave Descendents & Plantation Owners is written by Eugene Frazier and published by Arcadia Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1625842384 (ISBN 10) and 9781625842381 (ISBN 13).

James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen slave plantations. For many African Americans, it is hard to imagine how far this small island on the coast of South Carolina has come. It has left them with a legacy of the pain of living in a time and place wrought with hardship but somehow still intermingled with the happiness that comes from a community built on family, love, strength and honor. In this powerful collection, local resident and oral historian Eugene Frazier chronicles the stories of various James Island families and their descendants. Frazier has spent years collecting family and archival photographs and family remembrances to accompany the text, while also paying homage to men and women of the United States military and African American pioneers from James Island and surrounding areas.