Remnants of rice farming tools (broad hoe and small hoe blades) excavated from land occupied by freed persons at Stono Plantation on James Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. Tools such as these were valuable assets for tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the post-emancipation era.
Exhibit Menu
- Freedoms Gained: Emancipation in 1865
- Broken Promises: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
- Outspoken Demands for Accountability and Increasing Black Political Representation
- Planter Pleas for Return of Formerly Enslaved Persons
- Erastus W. Everson Scrapbook: Diary of a Freedmen’s Bureau Agent
- Laboring on a Rice Farm After Emancipation
- Photograph of a Woman Gesturing in Front of a Rice Granary, Wantoot plantation
- Perpetual Enslavement: Laboring on a Cotton Farm After Emancipation
- Artifacts excavated from land occupied by freed persons at Stono Plantation.
- Unequal Shares: Taking All the Risk with No Promise of Reward
- Give and Take: Contractual Commodities
- Holding on to Loved Ones: A Mother’s Contract
- No Security: Families Struggle to Stay Together
- The Constitutional Convention of 1868
- The South Carolina Constitution of 1868
- Faces of the “Radical” Republicans
- Black Men Begin Voting
- Freedom to Learn: The Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunities
- The Avery Normal Institute
- John L. Dart and the Charleston Industrial Institute
- Churches Bolster Educational Opportunities
- “She is Much Destroyed”: Searching for Lost Loved Ones
- Fortifying Families and Loved Ones
- “Under the Protection of Almighty God”: Marriage During Reconstruction
- Freedom to Worship
- Freedom to Make a Living: The Freedman’s Savings and Trust
- Defining A Home After Emancipation
- Artifacts excavated from land occupied by freed persons
- Lucretia Stewart’s Family Record
- Draconian Labor Contracts Become Increasingly Common
- The Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Risky Labor Contracts Proliferate
- Tools excavated from land occupied by freed persons
- Combahee Rice Field Workers Organize
- Racial Violence Escalates at the Twilight of Reconstruction
- Performing “Essential Duties for Truth and Justice”
- The Cainhoy Riot of 1876
- “Redemption” Propaganda at the Polls
- The Liberian Exodus
- Freedoms Lost: The Constitutional Convention of 1895
- Conclusion: Equity, Justice, and Knowledge
- Expanding Knowledge and Awareness: A Preliminary Reading List
