south carolina: barnwell enslaved and free persons, and slaveholders

The database currently contains almost 5,000 names of enslaved people extracted from digitized images of the Inventories and Appraisals in Barnwell County, SC 1809-1813, 1818-1821, 1821-1831, and 1831-1841 on Familysearch.org. Please note these are inventories and appraisals of the “goods and chattels” belonging to the estates of deceased people who lived in Barnwell. These are not inventories of all the enslaved people in that district. The people listed below are just a fraction of all those enslaved in Barnwell during this time period.

Included below are also a few names found on a bill of sale in Duke University’s “Slavery Series, 1757-1865 and undated” collection online.

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last updated 16 Nov 2019