Mitchelville
And Experiment In Freedom - Mitchelville was a town in South Carolina near present day Hilton Head where slaves were freed by military order prior to the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Chicora Foundation has been kind enough to allow CivilWar.com to place information about their archealogical studies and history of Mitchelville in the site. For further information read the short history of the site herein and visit Chicora.org.
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The Chicora Foundation has been kind enough to allow CivilWar.com to place information about their archealogical studies and history of Mitchelville in the site. For further information read the short history of the site herein and visit Chicora.org.
Copyright 1995 by Chicora Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication as presented within CivilWar.com or in print form may be reproduced or transcribed in any form without permission of Chicora Foundation, Inc. except for brief quotations used in reviews.
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