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Slave Patrols and the Charleston Workhouse in Drayton Documents

February 9, 2023

In this donate-what-you-can webinar, Curator Amber Satterthwaite will use Charles Drayton’s diaries and other historic documents to introduce you to some of the courageous individuals who risked everything by trying to reach their freedom, the consequences some of them faced, and the determination of men and women who continued to resist enslavement.

Freedom seekers in South Carolina faced many dangers. From laws seeking to control their movement and access to resources to the perils of living on one’s own in the wild, attempting to self-emancipate was an undertaking in which a person risked everything—including their life. Patrollers monitored the countryside in search of enslaved people who had left their homes, using violence and force to control populations, and punishments in the Charleston Workhouse often awaited those who were found.

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