...Edgefield, S.C., home of the Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society, has a list of slave surnames compiled by Alane Roundtree from records of Silver Bluff, Kathwood, Cowden and Redcliffe plantations. The list includes surnames used during...

...give us any trouble by their aspirations. Yours are white, or of your own race. You are brothers of one blood." Alane Roundtree and her husband, Elmore, who grew up in Aiken County, explained in a letter to The Augusta Chronicle on Sept...

...information about the Roundtree family, whose surnames in slavery were Shubrick, Simmons, Robert and Scott, write Alane Roundtree, 640 Brockton Curve, Eagan, Minn. 55123. If you have information about the Ryan, Ryans or Chinn families, e-mail...