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Participant Info
- Slaveholder
- Leander Fairchild, freed EP
- Locations
- Charleston, SC
- Researcher
- Cindy Lott
- Researcher's E-mail
- Cindylott0410 AT gmail.com
- Researcher Location
- Comments
- SH/EP Leander Fairchild is child of SH Capt. John Fairchild. Leander bought his own freedom. Leander had EPs: Men Robin and George.He freed Obin 1776, George 1791. Leander’s wife Statira was an EP . Leander was called a mustee, his mother was called a quadroon. Her name unknown. His daughter Hagar and her son Billy were EP’s. His son Maurice was an EP. Unknown who owner was of his wife and children. It was not Leander.
- On-line Tree or Website
- Will of Leander Fairchild, Ancestry.com, Cindy Lott Family Tree. Book: Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slavr Societies of the Americas, edited by Jane G Landers; article Becoming Free: Manumission and Genesis o. free Black Community in South Carolina, 1740-90, by Robert Orwell, p. 15. Larry Kroger, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slavemasters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, Jefferson, NC, 1985, ZZ, 254-255
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- Beyond Kin Researcher?
- Yes