Enslaved Communities on Drayton Family Plantations: SC, GA, FL
and TX "Slaves of the Rebel General Thomas F. Drayton"
Photographer: Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911 Source: Library of
Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04324 No known
restrictions on publication. In the first project of its kind,
the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, SC has
sponsored genealogical research to reconstruct the lineages of
enslaved communities on Drayton family plantations in the United
States and Barbados. For the past four years, the Lowcountry
Africana team and known descendants of families formerly
enslaved on Drayton family plantations have worked together to
rediscover the scattered paper trail which may connect the
enslaved ancestors on Drayton family plantations with many
thousands of living descendants throughout the United States. We
are now compiling the research for presentation here. The
documents presented here are small fraction of those to be
presented. In the course of our research we have gathered