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This photograph, possibly the earliest photograph of Fort Hill, is believed to be of Marie Calhoun and Floride Isabella Lee, the granddaughter of Anna Maria and Thomas Green Clemson. Marie Calhoun was born into slavery at Fort Hill ca. 1842. She was…

Nancy Calhoun Legree was born into slavery and is believed to be 106 in this photograph. Nancy continued to work for Thomas Green Clemson at Fort Hill even after emancipation.

Matilda "Tiller" Calhoun was born into slavery at Fort Hill and was listed on the 1865 appraisal with her father, Sharper, when she was 8 years old. According to Clemson University, this photograph is believed to be of Tiller.

Marie Calhoun was born into slavery at Fort Hill ca. 1842. She was the same age as the Thomas Green Clemson and Anna Maria's daughter, Floride Elizabeth. Marie was a seamstress and learned French. After Floride Elizabeth's death in 1871, she helped…

The Frusters were enslaved at Fort Hill until emancipation. Following the Civil War, they continued to work for Thomas Green Clemson as farm laborers. After Clemson's death, they worked the land that had become Clemson College and would go on to…

Susan Clemson Richardson was enslaved at Fort Hill where she helped care for the Clemson children as a teenager. She often slept in the room adjacent to Anna Maria Clemson with a string tied to her wrist so that she could be awoken in the middle of…

Thomas Green Clemson writes this letter to John C. Calhoun while living in Belgium. Clemson was concerned about his plantation at Cane Brake and seeking advice about selling the plantation. He did, however, wish to retain the 37 enslaved persons he…

In 1854, Andrew Pickens (A.P.) Calhoun purchased Fort Hill plantation, including 54 slaves, from his mother, Floride. He sold his plantation in Alabama, Canebrake, in 1863. After A.P.’s death in 1865, this appraisal showed 139 enslaved persons at…

This newspaper article, published in the New York Herald (a decidedly pro-slavery newspaper), describes John C. Calhoun's plantation. In it, the slave quarters are described as being about 1/8 of a mile from the plantation mansion and built by stone,…

John C. Calhoun writes to J.E. Calhoun and tells him of an enslaved person, Aleck, who has run away from Fort Hill. John C. Calhoun asks J.E. to keep an eye out for Aleck and that if he sees him, to have him whipped and sent back.