The Family History Of Thompson Collins 1785 1854 Celia Self 1790 1870 From Buncombe County North Carolina To Choestoe District Union County Georgia

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Descendants of Thompson Collins and his wife Celia Self. He was born about 1785 in North Carolina. He married Celia about 1810 and died about 1858 in Georgia. Celia was born about 1787 in North Carolina and died 3 Sep 1880 in Georgia. Descendants lived in Georgia, Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, and elsewhere.

Vols. for 1896-1897 contain as appendices papers relating to the part taken by military organizations of the state during the civil war, colonial records, 1664-1675, and muster rolls, 1664-1775.

Families primarily lived in the Southern and Eastern regions of the United States.

A rich portrait of Black life in South Carolina's Upstate Encyclopedic in scope, yet intimate in detail, African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900, delves into the richness of community life in a setting where Black residents were relatively few, notably disadvantaged, but remarkably cohesive. W. J. Megginson shifts the conventional study of African Americans in South Carolina from the much-examined Lowcountry to a part of the state that offered a quite different existence for people of color. In Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens counties—occupying the state's northwest corner—he finds an independent, brave, and stable subculture that persevered for more than a century in the face of political and economic inequities. Drawing on little-used state and county denominational records, privately held research materials, and sources available only in local repositories, Megginson brings to life African American society before, during, and after the Civil War. Orville Vernon Burton, Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. Distinguished Professor of History at Clemson University and University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Emeritus at the University of Illinois, provides a new foreword.