Jim Robinson (c1850-?)
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| Jim Robinson (c1850-?) | |
| Sex: | Male |
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| Birth: | c 1850 Friendfield Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina |
| Spouse: | Louiser Unknown (c1855-?) |
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Jim Robinson
- Slave, then sharecropper and newspaper seller
[edit] Biography
Jim Robinson was born about 1850 on the Friendfield plantation. All that is known of his parents is that they were slaves on the plantation and were both born in South Carolina, probably during the 1820s. Robinson gained his freedom in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War. He chose to remain on the plantation as a sharecropper.
Robinson appears in the 1880 census, with his wife Louisa (written "Louiser" by the census taker) and three children. He has not yet been definitely identified in any later census returns, though his children can be traced.
[edit] Children
| Offspring of Jim Robinson (c1850-?) and Louiser Unknown (c1855-?) | ||
| Name | Birth | Death |
| Gabriel Robinson (c1877-?) | , | |
| Martha Robinson (c1878-?) | ||
| Stephen Robinson (c1879-?) | ||
| Fraser Robinson (1884-1936) | March 24, 1884, Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina | November 3, 1936, Georgetown, Georgetown County, South Carolina |
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[edit] References
- http://www.afrigeneas.com/forumc/index.cgi?read=28311
- Ancestry.com: http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=craigsharrow&id=I739777
[edit] External links
- Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots Background for CNN, July 2009, by Joe Johns and Justine Redman
