Английская Википедия:Alonzo J. White (South Carolina)
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Alonzo James White (March 22, 1812 – July 1, 1885) was a 19th-century businessman of Charleston, South Carolina who was known as a "notorious" slave trader[1] and prolific auctioneer and thus oversaw the sales of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of enslaved Americans of African descent in his 30-year career in the American slave trade.[2]
Antebellum life and work
According the family bible record kept by White's father, attorney John Blake White, "my third son was born, and was baptised Alonzo James on the 22nd May, following by the Revd. Mr. Fowler, at St. Phillips Church, my sister Sarah & myself being his sponsors...In November 1813, My dear Eliza was taken ill with measles, with which she was very ill. Shortly after, all of our children were taken with the same disease altogether; with whom it has as yet proven very favorable. Except Alonzo, they have all had the whooping cough—and by means of the blessed discovery of the vaccine, they have escaped that terrible disease, the small pox."[3] Eliza Allston White died in 1817, when Alonzo was five years old.[3]
By 1835, when he was 23 years old, Alonzo J. White, as the junior partner in the firm Jervey, Waring, & White, participated in what is believed to be the single-largest slave sale in the history of the United States, the sale at auction of the 600 people who were legally enslaved by John Ball Jr.[4] Contemporary scholars have estimated that the total sale price was about Шаблон:USD. White's take would have been Шаблон:USD if Jervey, Waring & White took the typical 2.5 percent sales commission, split three ways.Шаблон:Sfnp
On March 29, 1838, 26-year-old Alonzo J. White married Eliza Ingraham at Charleston.[5] Almost exactly nine months later, on December 26, 1838, their first child was born, son Abbot Brisbane White.[6] At the time of the 1840 census White lived in a Charleston household with five free whites, one free person of color, and five enslaved black or mixed-race people.[7] A daughter, Martha Allston White, was born in October 1840.[8] According to the family Bible, babies came regularly for the next few years: "Blake Leay, third child of Alonzo & Eliza White, born the 20th September, 1842. Alonzo James their fourth child, Born the 21st March 1845. Eliza Allston, their fifth child born 19th January 1847. 23rd May 1849, a sixth child, a son of Alonzo J. & Eliza M. White, born this day, was baptised 17th June in extremis, Nathanial Ingraham."[8] On November 1, 1849, Billy, a servant of White, and Phillis, a (servant of Dr. T. Y. Simons), were married by the Rev. Paul Trapier at Mrs. Dehon's house, "before many witnesses, with consent of owners."[9]
At the time of the 1850 U.S. census of the Charleston parish of St. Michael and St. Phillip, White was the legal owner of nine enslaved people, five female, four male, aged two to 36.[10] He lived in town with his wife and six children, aged one to 12, and had real estate valued at Шаблон:USD.[11] He was on the board of trustees of the College of Charleston in 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1857.[12] On August 6, 1852, Alonzo J. White became the father of twins, a boy, William Moultrie White, and a girl, Louisa Hall White.[13]
On Thursday, March 10, 1853, at 11 a.m., White held an auction at the cobblestoned plaza on the north side of the Charleston Customs House.[14] The product, which had been delivered to Charleston from the Lowcountry on Monday, March 7 by the steamship Col. Myers, was "a very prime gang of NINETY-SIX NEGROS who have been accustomed to the culture of Rice on the Combahee River, until within the last five years they cultivated Sea Island Cotton. These Negros are very orderly and well disciplined and have been long organised and worked as a gang. Among them are Carpenters and a Cooper. They will be offered in families with the exception of a few who are single."[14] Conditions of the sale were "one-third cash. Balance two and three years with interest from date of sale payable annually secured by bonds, mortgage of property sold, and approved personal security."[15] British artist Eyre Crowe, on tour through the United States with the writer William Thackeray, sketched the outdoor auction in between assisting with Thackeray's three-lecture series at the Hibernian Hall.[16] In a history published 1937, historian Frederic Bancroft described the Charleston scene in contrast with the images of a slave sale Crowe had sketched in Virginia:Шаблон:Sfnp Шаблон:Blockquote
On June 28, 1853, James Blake White recorded that his granddaughter, baby Louisa White, had died at the family home on the corner of Laurens Street and East Bay.[13] In 1853, White began using an account book that listed slaves to be auctioned and continued to record sales in this ledger until 1863.[19] The book is held in the South Carolina Historical Society collection and has been scanned into their Low Country Digital Library.[19] In 1855, one of the people enslaved by the Whites had a baby: "White (formerly Jervey). (Jackson), son of William (servant of Mrs. John Johnson), and of Sary (servant of Mrs. Alonzo J. White, formerly of Wm. Jervey). Born Aug. 14, 1855, was baptized Sept. 21, 1855, in private, being ill."[20] In 1856, along with fellow Charleston slave traders Louis D. DeSaussure and Ziba B. Oakes, White opposed a new South Carolina law requiring that slave sales take place indoors rather than on the streets. Their argument was that the law was "an impolitic admission that would give 'strength to the opponents of slavery' and 'create among some portions of the community a doubt as to the moral right of slavery itself.'"Шаблон:Sfnp White's father, John Blake White, a respected citizen and apparently a talented artist, died at the age of 79 on August 25, 1859.[13] At the time of the 1860 census, Alonzo J. White was the legal owner of 16 people, ranging in age from two months to 56 years old.[21] Despite his earlier objections to selling slaves indoors, White became one of the Charleston traders who used the building now know as the Old Slave Mart for auctions, such as the January 23, 1860 sale of "Sixty-Five Negroes Accustomed to the Culture of Cotton and Provisions."[22]
In 1863 owner-editor R. Barnwell Rhett Jr. considered selling the financially challenged Charleston Mercury newspaper to White but they were unable to agree on terms.[23]
Later life and death
After the close of the American Civil War, on October 13, 1865, Alonzo J. White completed the Confederate pardon-amnesty process, including pledging to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution and agreeing to accept the emancipation of all former slaves, and the U.S. government returned control of the residence at 58 East Bay, Charleston, and other properties, to White.[24] In 1866, White was back to work as a broker but was restricted to selling houses, mills, plantations, and foundries, rather than people.[25] In 1867 a freedman trying to find work for his daughter, who was looking for a first job, presented as a credential that she and her mother had formerly been legally owned by A.J. White. (The young lady was duly hired but quit after four days; her erstwhile employer recorded in a journal: "Diana the 2nd took up her baggage and with her Kind and indulgent Parent returned to her home to enjoy Domestic tranquility & Peace.")[1]
In 1880, White and his son Blake L. White were partners in Alonzo J. White & Son, a firm located at 58 East Bay of "real estate, stock and bond brokers."[26] Another son, Alonzo J. White Jr. was Charleston city sheriff, based at City Hall.[26] When Alonzo J. White died in 1885, his obituary did not mention his past career as a slave trader, which was also the case for several other Charleston "brokers" whose biographies were scrubbed of any connection to the massive interstate slave trade.Шаблон:Sfnp The cause of death was paralysis. He was buried at Saint Philips Episcopal Church Cemetery at 146 Church St.[27][28]
See also
- List of American slave traders
- History of Charleston, South Carolina
- South Carolina Lowcountry
- South Carolina in the American Civil War
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- ↑ The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: St Michael and St Phillip, Charleston, South Carolina; Roll: 850; Page: 83a
- ↑ College of Charleston, Ancestry.com. U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935
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- ↑ Ancestry.com. 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
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- ↑ Source Citation The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, Dc; Records of the Assistant Commissioner For the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870; NARA Series Number: M869; NARA Reel Number: 25; NARA Record Group Number: 105; NARA Record Group Name: Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880; Collection Title: United States Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records 1865-1872 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2021. - page 174
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- ↑ 26,0 26,1 Charleston city directory 1880 Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ↑ "South Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1816-1990", database, FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HFPJ-2SW2 - Entry for Alonzo I White 1 Jul 1885. Id=Image 169 of 690, FHC Film # 007578722 - Burial location incorrect
- ↑ South Carolina, Charleston City Death Records, 1821-1926", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4L55-VNT2 , Entry for Alonzo J White, 1 Jul 1885.
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