A page from a Bible owned by Lucretia Stuart, a woman born enslaved on Fairfield Plantation near Georgetown in 1807. The Bible was given to Stuart by Mary M. Pringle, her enslaver, in 1856. Stuart used the Bible as a family record, documenting births, marriages, and deaths for multiple generations of her family. Descendants maintained the record through the middle of the twentieth century.
Courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society