Box 17

Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape: Sound quality-fair: voices muffled in the beginning of tape. The sound improves further in the recording. Side A contains long pause in recording. The cassette is labeled: "June 88 visit with Shoolbred at Snee Farm" (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina). Sides A and B: Stringfellow is tracing Johns Island history through her family, the Andells, and other families. Those mentioned are the Boykins, Stanyarnes, Gibbs, Greggs and Vanderhorsts, among...

Collection Overview Sixty (60) minute cassette tape Side A-Audio quality: clear and good. Talks about a discussion Stringfellow had with Greg Craven. Mentions Union army on Johns Island during the Civil War; Battle of Bloody Creek, fought by African-Americans. Property owned by Kinsey Burden. Also mentioned Adams Run, Brickhouse, Steamboat Landing, and James Island bridge. Side B-Audio quality: clear and good. Civil War on Johns Island discussion continue. Tape cut off with Stringfellow relating her...

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Sides A and B: Sound Quality-Good. "Life on John's Island'-See Box 3, Folder 3 for transcript.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side A and B: Sound quality-fair to poor. See Box 3, Folder 3 for transcript.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side 1: Audio quality-Fair. Talks about her ancestors, the Andells. Built a Clubhouse in 1915. Palmetto Lodge, fresh water pump. Mentions Native Americans originally on the land. Tape stops short. Side 2: Audio quality-Fair to poor. Discussion begins 3/4 from the beginning. Talks about Gullah, Native Americans.

Collection Overview Ninety (90) minute cassette tape Side A:Sound quality-fair-good (sound muffled at times) Discusses Revolutionary War on Johns and Seabrook Islands; the end of the Civil War and the work of the Freedmen's Bureau; the rise of the white farmers; the Seabrook family subdivision of land; education for African-Americans on Johns Island; discusses Johns Island book project with Pivnick; answers audience questions: briefly explains the terms "carpetbaggers," and "Gullah." Side B: Sound...

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tape

Sound quality-poor. Professors from Northwestern University are not identified.

Collection Overview

Ninety (90) minute cassette tapes

Sound quality good on all recordings Features historians Charles Joyner and Peter Wood reading papers regarding enslavement in South Carolina.

Collection Overview From the Series:

Contains mostly audio cassette tapes, many with oral histories conducted by Stringfellow and Pivnick.

Scope and Contents

90 minute tape. Interview begins with the history of Hebron Presbyterian Church on Johns Island and then transitions to an oral history with the Buddy Freeman about Johns Island, family history, and other residents of Johns Island.