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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913. Scrapbook, 1797-1974 [microform].

Title: Scrapbook, 1797-1974 [microform].

Scrapbook compiled by James Harrison Holloway (1849-1913), consisting of land papers, bills and receipts, personal and business correspondence, photographs, and information on fraternal and religious organizations to which the family belonged, many of which were mutual aid societies for free people of color, and materials re social activities in Charleston, S.C.; also includes legal documents, ephemera, clippings, and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family. Legal documents include deeds for real estate (1806, 1821, 1871); a conveyance (1811); will of Richard Holloway (1842); a photograph of a 1797 Charleston document declaring Richard Holliday (Holloway) a "free mulatto" man from Maryland; a bill of sale (1829) for Betty, a slave; an agreement (1829) to apprentice Carlos, a slave, in the carpenters and house joiners' trade; and exhorter licenses to preach. Personal and business correspondence primarily of Elizabeth, Richard, and James H. Holloway include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the "Holloway Negroes," a letter (1833) from Samuel Benedict of Savannah, Ga., a former slave who had purchased his freedom, re his preparations before migrating to Liberia; and information about the Brown Fellowship Society (and under its later name, the Century Fellowship Society), the Minors Moralist Society (a society founded by free people of color in 1803 to fund the education of indigent free black orphan children), and the Bonneau Library Society (an educational organization for free blacks founded 1830). Receipts list expenses for taxes, clothing, and other items; volume also includes invitations, Confederate Civil War tax receipts, and Confederate scrip. Clippings, including articles and letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway; topics include capitation taxes on free people of color, African American slaveholders, the Liberia colonization movement, the African Methodist Episcopal Church Home, and related topics. Photographs are of family members, a cemetery, and the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Home.

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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913,. Holloway family scrapbook, 1806-1974.

Title: Holloway family scrapbook, 1806-1974.

Disbound scrapbook contains legal documents, personal and business correspondence, receipts, ephemera, clippings, and photographs pertaining to the Holloway family. Legal documents include deeds (1806, 1821, 1871), a conveyance (1811), Richard Holloway's will (1842), a photograph of a 1797 Charleston document declaring Richard Holliday (Holloway) a free mulatto man from Maryland, a bill of sale (1829) for the slave Betty, an agreement (1829) to apprentice the slave boy Carlos in the carpenters and house joiners' trade, and exhorter licenses to preach. Personal and business correspondence primarily of Elizabeth, Richard, and James H. Holloway include letters concerning the hiring out of slaves, an offer (1837) to buy the Holloway Negroes, a letter from Samuel Benedict of Savannah about his preparations before leaving for Liberia (1833), and information about the Brown Fellowship Society, the Century Fellowship Society, the Minors Moralist Society, and the Bonneau Literary Society. Receipts are for taxes, clothes, and other items. Also included are invitations, Confederate war tax receipts, and Confederate scrip. Clippings, including articles and letters to the editor written by James H. Holloway, concern Negro taxes, Negro slaveholders, the Liberia movement, the African Methodist Episcopal Church Home, and related topics. Photographs are of family members, a cemetery, and the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Home.

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