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Weston Chapel, Hagley Plantation, Waccamaw, S. C. One of the most notable chapels of the South, in which religious instruction was given to slaves. Graves of slaves are shown in the foreground

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Matthews, Essie Collins

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Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. Cemeteries
  2. Chapels
  3. Graves
  4. Slaver
  5. Slaves
  6. Social Conditions
  7. South Carolina
  8. United States
  9. Waccamaw

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All Saints' Parish Church. At Waccamaw, S. C., where Rev. Alexander Glennie was Rector from 1832 to 1866. His remains lie in the Parish church yard Interior of Weston Chapel. The ceiling and pews are of cypress. Arches add to the dignity Tomb of Plowden Weston. Mr. Weston built the chapel that bears his name. He sleeps near All Saints' Parish Church - so near one may imagine he hears the services he loved so well Faith Memorial Chapel. Built by Rev. Mr.Guerry after the war. Services are held on Sunday, and during the week there is school here for Negro children Valentine's Recumbent Statue of General Robert E. Lee. In the Chancel of Chapel of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington Virginia. Beneath the statue is the mausoleum in which rest the bodies of General Robert E. Lee, his father Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary war fame, his son General George Washington Custis Lee, a major - general in the Confederate States Army and President of Washington and Lee University, 1870 to 1897, and other members of the Lee family Aunt Phebe Collins. Religious services of the emotional order are held in her house Rector's Study by Rev. Mr. Glennie and his assistants, when they were doing so much for the uplift of the negroes "Oldest tombstone in slave cemetery within Dutch Cemetery of East New York Aunt Africa. "Ise gwine t' heah dem heabenly ban's An' feel de tech of de ole-time han's Dat long hab passed away." Resting at her own fireside Rather than go out into the unknown, they [the former slaves] chose to stay with those [their former masters]whom they had come to know as friends and protectors Rice fields from the Avenue of Live Oaks, Caledonia Plantation Aunt Ann. Ann Austin was the slave of Samuel Pitts, Uniontown, Alabama. She was eighty-nine years old when the picture was taken Uncle John. He was another of the slaves that Mr. Ogle Tayloe took from Maryland to the Windsor Plantation. He died there recently at the age of ninety-two Slavery in America; [Women and children from Africa in the Southern States] Uncle Tom" Brown A Pray - House Aunt Jonas. She is Drualla Jones, aged ninety-four, and was the slave Thomas Ferrell. She and two others were the only old slaves I found who were not loyal to their owners. During the war she tried to burn her master's house General Robert E. Lee, January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870. From his last photograph, loaned by Washington and Lee University Caroline Lawson. Judge Tayloe's "Black Mammy," standing on the "gallery" of the plantation house
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