Richard Yeadon Dwight papers, 1866 June 15 - Oct. 14.

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Richard Yeadon Dwight papers, 1866 June 15 - Oct. 14.

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Letters written from Pinopolis, St. John's Parish (Berkeley County, S.C.) from R.Y. Dwight to R[obert] K[ingston] Scott and F.W. Leidtke, officers of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, in which Dwight reports difficulties with the African American freedmen who had not honored their labor contracts while residing on Pooshee Plantation, a property owned by Dwight's father-in-law, H[enry] W[illiam] Ravenel; includes series of letters written in reply by Leidtke, one of which was written on letterhead of the Monck's Corner office of the Bureau.

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Ravenel, Henry William, 1814-1887

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Born in 1814 in St. John's Parish, South Carolina; Educated in South Carolina private schools and South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina; one of the few distinguished botanists of his time and received international acclaim for his research on non-flowering plants, Cryptogams. His earlier interest was Phaenogams, flowering plants. His collections were given to the Charleston Museum and Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C. From the description of Henry William ...

Scott, Robert K. (Robert Kingston), 1826-1900

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Leidtke, F. W.

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Dwight, Richard Yeadon, 1837-1919.

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Physician of Berkeley District in lowcountry South Carolina; in 1863, married Rowena Elizabeth Ravenel (1837-1924), daughter of botanist and physician Henry William Ravenel; Dwight was an 1859 graduate of the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, where he completed his MD thesis on the topic of hypnosis: "Neuro-Hypnotism, or Artificial Nervous Sleep." From the description of Richard Yeadon Dwight papers, 1866 June 15 - Oct. 14. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat recor...