1838 Charleston letter-plantation, sullivans island

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The island was known as O'Sullivan's Island from an early date, because of the Irishman, Captain Florence O'Sullivan, who was stationed as a lighthouse keeper in the late seventeenth century. The island was completely denuded in order to distinguish the approach to Charleston Harbor. Sullivan's Island was at first the main Entrance for app. 40% (4-8 Million Pers.) of the Slave traded Blacks to the British Colonies using the Middle Passage. offered is an 1838 stampless manuscript letter from L Minot to Wm Minot in Boston. She has traveled to Charleston with friends, and writes about her trip to Charleston. She notes the letter will be carried by the steamboat Neptune. Wm had sailed to Sullivans' Island- had she been stronger she would have made the trip. She went to visit Mrs Middleton at her beautiful plantation. She talks about the dampness of death in Charleston. I think I see the pale apparition of...steal forth as soon as the sun is down amid these loves of beauty to hunt for victims....The Negros, however remain t in safety enjoying all the good things of country lifeeach with his own garden peach trees, & fig, the fruits of which he eats with out fear of disease so mysterious are the ways of Providence who giveth to each as he sees best....She writes of leaving Charleston in the Carolina for passage to Norfolk, and Baltimore. read more

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