"They encourage insubordination by precept as well as example": Beaufort's Free Persons of Color through the Civil War and Reconstruction

Of the estimated half million free people of color living in the United States, nearly half of them resided in the South with large, notable communities in cities like Charleston and New Orleans. While there were over 36,000 enslaved persons in Beaufort county in the 1860 census, there were also more than 800 freepeople. Park Ranger Dr. Tedi Light’s talk will trace the lives of that community through archival records that reveal the precarity of life on the fringes of a slave society and the opportunities seized during the Reconstruction Era.

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This event is free to attend.

Location

913 West Street, Beaufort, South Carolina 29902

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Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
(843) 962-0039
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