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| Size | 4.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2550 items) |
| Abstract | Richard Dozier (1822-1901) was a Georgetown, S.C., attorney, and South Carolina state legislator. The collection includes professional papers, especially 1870-1900, including briefs, summaries, correspondence, and other papers relating to cases handled by Dozier and his law partner, Benjamin H. Wilson. Slight personal correspondence is interspersed discussing family and plantation affairs, rice cultivation, social and economic conditions during Reconstruction, the migration of some family members to California and conditions there, and the involvement of African Americans in local politics. |
| Creator | Dozier, Richard, 1822-1901. |
| Language | English |
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Richard Dozier (1822-1901) was a Georgetown, S.C., attorney and South Carolina state legislator.
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The collection includes professional papers, especially 1870-1900, including briefs, summaries, correspondence, and other papers relating to cases handled by Richard Dozier and his law partner, Benjamin H. Wilson. Slight personal correspondence is interspersed discussing family and plantation affairs, rice cultivation, social and economic conditions during Reconstruction, the migration of some family members to California and conditions there, and the involvement of African Americans in local politics.
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Richard Dozier Papers, 1787-1922 and undated.
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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