Old Slave Market Postcard
Slavery--United States
A postcard depicting Elijah Green (ca. 1838-), a former slave, sitting in front of the Old Slave Mart, located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Green was said to have been born in 1838 and was one of the few ex-slaves still living in 1941. The Old Slave Mart opened in 1808 as a response to the ban on the United States' participation in the international slave trade. It served as a domestic slave collecting and reselling center until 1863. The site was placed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and was acquired by the City of Charleston in 1998.<br /><br />This postcard is part of a collection of postcards kept by Lucile Campbell, a schoolteacher in Sanford, Florida, for 30 years. In 1931, she took advantage of a special rate for teachers and sailed to Europe, where she traveled for several months and is thought to have acquired many of these postcards. During the 1940-1941 school year, Campbell taught at Sanford Grammar School. Before her retirement in 1970, she taught at many other area schools, including the Oviedo School, Westside Grammar School, and Pinecrest Elementary School. Campbell used these postcards as aids in her classrooms to teach advanced subjects, such as Shakespearean drama. The collection, along with her other teaching aids, papers, and photographs, was later found at Sanford Grammar School after it became the University of Central Florida's Public History Center. Campbell's postcard collection and photographs provide insight into the life of a respected Florida educator.
Original 3 x 5 inch black and white photographic postcard: ACC# SM-00-243, file folder 1 (U.S. blanks), box 10A, Lucile (Mary Lucile) Campbell Collection, <a href="http://www.publichistorycenter.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">UCF Public History Center</a>, Sanford, Florida.
Campbell, Lucile
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Old Slave Mart, Charleston, South Carolina
Florida Historical Quarterly, Episode 28: Vol. 94, No. 3, Winter 2016
Slavery--Florida
Native Americans
Civil War, U.S., 1861-1865
Prisons--United States
This podcast features an interview with Dr. James G. Cusick, the curator of the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida Library and author of <em>The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida</em>, published by the University of Georgia Press. He edited the special issue on the first part of the 19th century. In this podcast, Dr. Cusick discusses the authors and articles that appear in this issue.
Murphree, Daniel S.
Original 27-minute and 9-second audio podcast by Daniel S. Murphree, 2016: <a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>, Florida Historical Society, Cocoa, Florida.
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/quarterly" target="_blank"><em>The Florida Historical Quarterly</em></a>
Cusick, James G.
<a href="https://myfloridahistory.org/default" target="_blank">Florida Historical Society</a>
<a href="http://history.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">University of Central Florida, Department of History</a>
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Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York
Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia
Jacksonville, Florida
U.S. Census for Central Florida, 1850
Census--United States
Orange County (Fla.)
Marion County (Fla.)
Population--United States
The Seventh United States Census records for Orange County (including present-day Seminole County and part of Lake County and Osceola County) and Marion County for 1850. The census divides the population by race ("White" vs. "Black") and gender. The "Black" population is further divided into slaves and "free blacks." The population isĀ also divided by out-of-state origin and foreign origin. Finally, the census collected information on agriculture, including number of farms, cash value of farms, acres of improved land of farms, acres of unimproved land of farms, and value of livestock.<br /><br />In March of 1849, Congress pass legislation that established a census board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Postmaster General. The board was responsible for preparing and printing forms and schedules for enumeration related to population, mining, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, education, etc. The 1850 Census also increased population inquiries to include every free person's name (as opposed to just the head of the household), as well as information on taxes, schools, crime, wages, estate values, etc.
<a href="http://www.census.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Census Office</a>
Original census data by the <a href="http://www.census.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Census Office</a>, 1850.
<a href="http://www.census.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Census Office</a>
Gibson, Ella
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Orange County, Florida
Marion County, Florida