Biography: Rivers, Prince

Prince Rivers

Biography: Rivers, Prince

06/20/2016

Biography

South Carolina Encyclopedia features a short 2016 biography, written by Professor W. Scott Poole, on the life of Prince Rivers- a formerly enslaved man turned Union Army Sergeant and trial judge from Beaufort, South Carolina. Themes include: Rivers' life as an enslaved person before the Civil War, his service as a Sergeant in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers during the Civil War, and his political career in the South after the war.

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