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Copper slave badge imprinted "Charleston No. 261 Fruiterer 1812," Walter Pantovic Artifact Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.

Copper slave badge imprinted "Charleston No. 261 Fruiterer 1812." The badge is a contemporary counterfeit--"Fruiterer" is not a known occupation to be printed upon slave badges.

Selection from ledger entries for Friday, the 30th of May through Monday, the 2nd of June, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Selection from ledger entries for Wednesday, the 3rd of December through Thursday, the 4th of December, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

"View of Charles Town," painting by Tomas Leitch, ca. 1774, Charles Town, South Carolina, courtesy of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.

City Gazette and Daily Advertiser, September 20, 1799, Charleston, South Carolina, courtesy of America's Historical Newspapers.

Front Page of the Daybook of James Poyas, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Ledger entries for the 30th of April, 1765, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Ledger entries for the 30th of April, 1765. Customers listed include: John Beswicke and Co. (184); Greenwood and Higginson (184); Anderson and Lothian (275); and Pearson and Gadsden (275).

Selection from ledger entries for Monday, the 15th of April through Tuesday, the 22nd of April, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Historic marker for the Stono Rebellion, image by Henry de Saussure Copeland, near Charleston, South Carolina, August 2009.

Ledger entries for the 1st of February to the 2nd of February, 1760, Charles Town, South Carolina, The James Poyas Daybook Collection, Lowcountry Digital Library, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

Ledger entries for Friday, the 1st of February through Saturday, the 2nd of February, 1760. Customers listed include: the estate of Nathaniel Arthur (62); George Huggins (65); Theodore Trezevant (25); the estate of Joseph Scott (26); John Ernest…

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