Article: In Freedom’s Shadow: The Reconstruction Legacy of Renty Franklin Greaves of Beaufort County, South Carolina

Mitchelville

Article: In Freedom’s Shadow: The Reconstruction Legacy of Renty Franklin Greaves of Beaufort County, South Carolina

2010

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The National Archives features a 2010 article, by Giselle White-Perry, from Prologue magazine on Renty Franklin Greaves- a formerly enslaved African American who fought in the Civil War, gained an education, and became a public office holder. The article briefly mentions the time Greaves spent at Mitchelville, one of the first self-governing communities of formerly enslaved African Americans, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. According to the source, Greaves and several other freedmen tried to resist mounting conflict over land by filing a claim to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for improvements made on the property.

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National Archives (Original Publisher: Prologue Magazine)

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