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Duncan, Thomas Cary, 1862-1928. Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families, 1765-1933.

Title: Papers of the Wallace, Rice, and Duncan families, 1765-1933.

Consisting chiefly of correspondence, bills and receipts, statements of cotton sales, land papers, account books, and other materials relating to Benjamin Herndon Rice's plantation in Union County, S.C., cotton growing, and business dealings with Charleston, S.C., cotton factors, Rice, Sims & Barksdale, Pelzer, Rodgers & Co., and A.J. Salinas & Son. Topics discussed include secession crisis of 1850; temperance; African Americans during slavery, Reconstruction, and after, including sales and hiring-out of slaves; agriculture and cultivation of cotton; migration; Civil War; railroads; poor cotton crop in 1866 due to weather conditions; economic conditions in S.C., Mississippi, Alabama and elsewhere after the Civil War, including migration of "Yankee farmers" from the north; and farm labor and sharecropping. Other topics include Atlantic Phosphate Company (Charleston, S.C.); Ku Klux Klan; Flynn family of Union, S.C.; sale, ca. Nov. 1911, of a plantation hunting resort near Georgetown, S.C.; and political and temperance speeches by B.H. Rice; Letters, 1866-1885, of James Monroe Wallace, his sister Mary Ann Wallace, and the children of their deceased brother William M. Wallace re J.M. Wallace's guardianship of their estates; business records, 1867-1932, re the mercantile firm of Rice & Coleman, Union, including letters to Robert Lowry Coleman re cotton and tobacco market conditions and from overseer W.T. Dickenson. Papers re textile industry in S.C., including Union Mills, S.C., Orangeburg Cotton Mills, and letters to R.L. Coleman's son, William Coleman (1875-1924), president of Glenn-Lowry Manufacturing Company, Whitmire, S.C., re expansion of the mill in 1911; other correspondents include William Ashmead Courtenay, Thomas Cary Duncan, Andrew Simonds, W.B. Smith Whaley, Jeanette Winter Wallace, R.W. Wallace, John P. Wallace. Three bound volumes: 1821 and 1871-1880, account book of an unidentified merchant; volume, 1858-1866, account book listing financial records re settlement of the estates of B.G. Rice and E.M. Rice; and volume, 1859-1868, recipe book with manuscript poetry.

ArchivalResource: 1018 items and 3 v.

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Rice, Benjamin Herndon, 1809-1888. Benjamin Herndon Rice papers, 1854-1875.

Title: Benjamin Herndon Rice papers, 1854-1875.

Letters of a cotton planter in Union District, S.C., re farming during antebellum and Reconstruction eras. Three letters, 22 Feb. 1854 - 2 Apr. 1866, written from Union District, S.C.,; includes copy of letter, 16 May 1865, from Rice to S[impson] Bobo of Spartanburg, S.C., protesting Bobo's decision to send Rice's recently freed African Americans back to Rice "in consequence of the Yankee robbery," stating that he could neither employ nor feed them, and demanding that Bobo agree to accept return of the African Americans who had been hired out to work in the iron works while enslaved. Seven letters, 29 Dec. 1855 - 16 Feb. 1875, from J. M. Wallace of Tennessee re land sales, investments, and race and labor relations during Reconstruction, including a letter, 4 Feb. 1870, informing Rice that the labor situation had improved with the return of several African American freedmen, stating "I am somewhat surprised at my having any - as I alone have been unyielding to their new demands and treated the whole of them, with cold indifference and ridicule," remarking "the truth is, I am wearied to death in my efforts to make a living with them and after this year I am positively done," and advising Rice to buy stock of the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road at 11 cents; an incomplete letter describes disapproval of the operation of the S.C. Rail Road Company, stating, "its officers & they are Legion, it has fed-filled-fattened and not a crumb has been thrown to Orphans and Widows who fill the lists of its stockholders."

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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