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The Original
44 Enslaved Families
           of SIG

are rooted in Africa as much as
the roots of this tree are in tabby.

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This is one of the tabby cabins constructed & lived-in by the enslaved Africans on the Spaulding plantation. (photo circa 1910)
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Gullah women pulling herbal root plant on SIG. Click on picture to enlarge.
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Tabby Ruins at High Point on SIG. Click on picture to enlarge.
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Tabby ruins by Belle Marsh on SIG. Medicinal plant to the Gullah/Geechee culture on SIG called "MULLEIN." Click on picture to enlarge.
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Tabby ruins at Chocolate Plantation on SIG.
History Lesson's Continued...

Question:  Where Did the Last Names of the Enslaved Originate?

Answer:  A Vast Majority of African Diaspora Scholars Concur ...

that most of the last names of enslaved populations on plantations originated from job assignments i.e. 
the Bailey's bale tabacco; Gardner's tend the gardens; Grovner's tend the groves; Hogg's tend to hogs;
Walker's walk livestock, etc. 

Thomas Bailey

Family No. 1

Dennis Gilbert

Family No. 12

John Lemon

Family No. 23

Harry Sams

Family No. 34

Charles Banks

Family No. 2

?

Family No. 13

Thomas Lemon

Family No. 24

Hester Smith

Family No. 35

Liberty Bell

Family No. 3

John Grovner

Family No. 14

George Lewis

Family No. 25

Abraham Spaulding

Family No. 36

Anthony Boson

Family No. 4

Sampson Hogg (Hall)

Family No. 15

Peter Maxwell

Family No. 26

Carolina Underwood

Family No. 37

John Brown

Family No. 5

Richard Handy

Family No. 16

John Mills

Family No. 27

Charles Walker

Family No. 38

Glasco Campbell

Family No. 6

Sampson Hillery

Family No. 17

Jack Moore

Family No. 28

?

Family No. 39

March Carter

Family No. 7

Sipio Jackson

Family No. 18

Daniel Parker

Family No. 29

James Walker

Family No. 40

Prince Carter

Family No. 8

Isaac Johnson

Family No. 19

Samuel Roberts

Family No. 30

June Walker

Family No. 41

Perault 
Dixon

Family No. 9

Charles Jones

Family No. 20

James Robinson

Family No. 31

Benjamin Wilson

Family No. 42

Boson Gardner

Family No. 10

?

Family No. 21

Anthony Sams

Family No. 32

March Wilson

Family No. 43

Phoebe Gary

Family No. 11

James Lemon

Family No. 22

Caesar Sams

Family No. 33

Stephen Wylly

Family No. 44
? missing data

Great Migration (African American)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast,Midwest, and West from 1910 to 1970. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration (1910–1930), numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern and midwestern industrial cities, and, after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), in which 5 million or more people moved, including many to California and various western cities.[1]

Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the South, especially Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, to the other three cultural (and census-designated) regions of the United States. More townspeople with urban skills moved during the second migration.[1] By the end of the Second Great Migration, African Americans had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent lived in cities. A majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent lived in the North and 7 percent in the West.[2]

A reverse migration had gathered strength since 1965, dubbed the New Great Migration, the term for demographic changes from 1965 to the present in which many blacks have returned to the South, generally to states and cities where economic opportunities are the best. Since 1965, economic difficulties of cities in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, growth of jobs in the "New South" with lower costs of living, family and kinship ties, and improving racial relations have all acted to attract African Americans to the Southern United States in substantial numbers. As early as 1975 to 1980, seven southern states were net black migration gainers. African-American populations continue to drop throughout much of the Northeast, particularly with black emigration out of the state of New York,[3] as well as out of Northern New Jersey,[4] as they rise in the Southern United States.


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