Nov 1, 2023 · Sam Polite began his life in slavery, but died a free man - and along the way shared his story with his community. Sam Polite was born on St. Helena Island around in the early …

Interview with Sam Polite, age 93 — Mrs. Chlotilde R. Martin, Beaufort County "W'en gun shoot on Bay Pint (Bay Point) for freedom, I been sebenteen year old wuking slabe.

May 1, 2024 · Sam Polite began his life in slavery, but died a free man - and along the way shared his story with his community. Sam Polite was born on St. Helena Island around in the …

Polite, Samuel Turner, Lorenzo Dow Unidentified Female Interviewer Dates. 1932-06-27 Location. Beaufort County Saint Helena Island South Carolina United States Language. English Subject. …

Mar 28, 2020 · The Slave Narrative of Mr. Sam Polite, given at 93 years of age, chronicles that life. It was written on St. Helena, a cotton producing Sea Island in the Carolinas, where Mr. …

Interview with Samuel Polite, St. Helena Island, South Carolina (Gullah), June 27, 1932 http://www.loc.gov/item/afc1984011_000101 Unidentified Woman: What did he do? Mr. …

Sam Polite is a part of US Black heritage. Sam was born in 1844. He passed away in 1944. Sam Polite was interviewed about 1937 in Beaufort, South Carolina about his life and his time as an …

One person Sam Polite, a freed slave, explained why so many burials took place at night: "When nigger dead, you can't knockoff work for bury'um. You must wait till nighttime to put'um in the …

Sam Polite was born in the 1840s on a St. Helena Island plantation and enslaved by the Fripp family. Sam was taken by his enslavers when Union forces arrived in 1861, laboring in …

This 1910 photograph shows "Uncle Sam Polite" knitting a fish net, teaching students at the Penn School a craft that African ancestors from the coastal regions of West Africa brought with …