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Up next, a story from the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, about an ordinary object that has an extraordinary story behind it that many didn't know until recently. Here's Chris Graham, curator of exhibitions at the museum with a story. It's a white cloth. It just looks like a towel. Folded up.
It's not dyed. It's roughly woven. be honest with you, not much to look at. And you wouldn't think too much about it because, you know, it's not a gun, it's not a uniform, you know, it's not a sword. But that this one very plain artifact witnessed so much during its time.
The people that donated this artifact in the early 19th century, I think about 1905, 1907, gave it to the museum and said, This is a piece of cloth. It was woven by the Negroes on our plantation. And sort of the people that donated this object, it is a. object that demonstrates that The material shortages in the Confederate station were so bad that we had to weave our own cloth. This is how bad it got for us.
This is how bad we suffered. Also, by identifying it as something that was made by one of their enslaved people, they could say that. Yes, they were in it with us in the same way that we were in it. They didn't see runaways. They didn't see self-emancipators.
And what that means is that over the course Of the 20th century, as those people wrote about and defined what counts as Civil War history. that part of the experience is left out. But we see that now. Uh It was made on a plantation in Darlington County, South Carolina. It was made by an enslaved person who was enslaved by a man named Mitchell King.
Mitchell King was a Scottish immigrant to the United States, but he came over in 1812 or something, I don't remember, but established himself in Charleston, became a lawyer, a judge, very well respected, an extremely wealthy man who owned multiple plantations from Georgia to North Carolina, growing chiefly rice.
So he had A Plantation near Savannah, near to where the United States Army was encroaching on the sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia early in the war. And wherever the United States Army goes, enslaved people take what chance they can get to escape to it. Enslavers knew this. They knew it. And they took measures to move their enslaved populations out of the way.
And so, wherever you see the United States Army going, you see enslaved people running to the Army, but you also see slave owners taking their populations and moving them further inland. There's this great movement of essentially refugees from freedom, you might say, that are going inland. And so, Mitchell King moved the population of his rice plantation near Savannah to Darlington, South Carolina to grow cotton. He purchased a plantation there called Witherspoon Island. It had formerly been owned by.
A man who died, and his widow was killed by one of her enslaved people. Occasionally, enslaved people will kill their masters. And so they're already moving into a fraught landscape. The witherspoon. Population of enslaved people were sold off.
Families broken up, distributed amongst the Witherspoon heirs somewhere else. The Mitchell King family moved their people, about 205 people. Two hundred and five people moved from Savannah To Darlington, South Carolina, to grow a crop they didn't know how to grow, to be in a place where they didn't know anyone around them, and to kind of be secure from the temptation to escape to freedom in the United States Army. And so it's in this context that one of these people wove this piece of cloth. At the end of the war, this population was still on Wheeler Springer Island Plantation.
It wasn't actually an island, it was just the name of the plantation. Mitchell King died during the war. Old age, but his son still owned the plantation. He didn't dispute emancipation. He wanted his people to continue working on that plantation.
And so he used the Freedmen's Bureau. an agent from the Freedmen's Bureau to negotiate a contract. With his formerly enslaved population that were now free on the property. And so they worked out a contract for them to work through the rest of the year in 1865, farming cotton in Darlington County. And so this is, you know, perhaps, I don't know the conditions under which they negotiated a contract, but certainly it was maybe the first time in a corporate way that these enslaved people were able to kind of negotiate from a position of freedom on matters and terms that free people.
negotiate things for contracts for work, labor, pay. Um At the end of 1865, an interesting thing happens though. The Freedmen's Borough agent comes back and he looks around and he says, These people you have working for you, they know how to grow rice. They don't know how to grow cotton. This place looks shabby.
You should send them back to Savannah. And that's actually what happened. The population of this plantation up and moved back to Savannah. And the owner of the plantation had to kind of scramble to find laborers from the existing population around him. And so there's some unknown questions in that.
Was this a choice that they made? Were they forced to go back to Savannah? Did they choose on their own to go back to Savannah? Was it because they would rather grow rice than cotton? I don't know.
Was it because they knew people in Savannah? They probably had family on other farms. that they knew back there. That was a place that they called home. Maybe they wanted to be there.
Maybe they didn't give a damn about whether they could grow cotton or rice. Maybe they wanted to go home. And now they have this opportunity, you know. Whereas in 1862, they were forced to migrate elsewhere. But now maybe they had, I like to think that they had the choice to migrate again, but on their own terms this time.
And a special thanks to Monty Montgomery for the production and Chris Graham at the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia, the story of a white cloth, the story of so much more, including the sovereignty of the individual to live free in this great country, and the story of America's original sin, slavery, all of it. here on Our American Story. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, Spotify, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts.
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