Scrapbook, 1797-1974 [microform].

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Scrapbook, 1797-1974 [microform].

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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 family.

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Holloway, James H. (James Harrison), 1849-1913,

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Harness maker, author, and Charleston (S.C.) resident. As "free Negroes" Holloway family members owned property and developed valuable skills and trades. After the Civil War James Holloway joined his brother Mitchell as a teacher in Marion (S.C.) where he later opened a store and was appointed Postmaster. He returned to Charleston and opened a harness maker's shop. James H. Holloway was the son of Charles H. Holloway, and the grandson of Richard Holloway (a well known preacher) and Elizabeth Mit...

Brown Fellowship Society.

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Holloway, Richard, 1776-1845.

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Centenary Methodist Episcopal Home (Charleston, S.C.)

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Holloway, Charles H., 1814-1885.

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Benedict, Samuel

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Holloway, Edward, 1820-1855.

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Minors Moralist Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, 1785-1866.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Bonneau Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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Century Fellowship Society (Charleston, S.C.)

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