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Some Primary Sources Relating to the Presentations Given Today Saturday, December 13, 2008 http://www.teachingUShistory.org/Orangeburg5.htm
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Original painting in Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia.Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
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Watercolor by unidentified artist, depicting plantation slaves dancing and playing musical instruments; banjo player and a percussion player (possibly playing a gourd) at right. This may be a scene in the Low Country region of South Carolina. Some Guiding Questions for Painting: 1.What can this painting tell you about the construction of slave houses? 2.Where are these slave houses in relation to the Plantation house? 3.What is the intention of the artist? How can this influence his interpretation of slave housing? 4.What other information does this painting give us concerning the lives of slaves in the 18th century? http://www.nvcc.edu/home/atucker/colsociety/dogwood/hcslavesdancing.htm
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Mulberry Plantation (near Charleston), c.1800. Original at Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
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"An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and Other Slaves in this Province“ or Slave Code of South Carolina, May 1740
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Lesson by Lisa Bevans of Drayton Hall Elementary “Effects of the Stono Rebellion” http://www.teachingushistory.org/tTrove/stonorebellion.html Students read excerpts of only first hand account of Stono Rebellion (letter by Lt. Governor William Bull) Students also worked in groups to analyze individual articles found within the 1740 Slave Code Transcription of 1740 Slave Code
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Map of the Cherokee Country and the Path Thereto by George Hunter, 1730
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Online Exhibit from SC Dept of Archives and History “Documenting the Frontier: South Carolina and the Cherokee” http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/exhibits/cherokee/cherokeeintro.htm
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Santee National Wildlife Refuge (includes Indian Mound and site of Battle of Fort Watson) http://www.fws.gov/santee/ Image found on this website http://www.safetgallery.com/MoundPix/MoundFrameset.html
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Map found in Walter B. Edgar’s South Carolina: A History, 1998: 53
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Plan of Orangeburg, 1735
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