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Life and Times of Simon: An Enslaved from the Upcountry of South Carolina
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My name is Michael Turner Webb and I am a historical interpreter detailing the life and times of Simon.
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Life of a Historical Interpreter
I have been a historical interpreter for almost 10 years now. While in college I interned and volunteered at the Life and Times of Black of American History (LATIBAH) Collard Green Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. My time at the LATIBAH Collard Green Museum brought on my interest of wanting to become a historical interpreter. After I graduated from Johnson C. Smith University, I decided to go into the career path of historical interpretation.
I started out as an intern/volunteer at the Gaston County Arts & History Museum in Dallas, North Carolina. When I initially started I was really all about history and educating the public about local history in the area. After a while I learned about the museum - which is in a 19th century hotel - and I learned that the owner of the hotel had enslaves working there. That completely blew my mind! Because before then, all I had learned initially was how the owner and his family had lived there and how they were operating the hotel. From the early onset I was not given this piece of information. So, when I heard about the enslaves working there my mind just started racing and I wanted to know more. And what I found out was that their was a freeman by the name of Ephraim Crow who was working there and how he was a mystery as far as how he even got there. From this situation grew an even deeper passion for me to want not only take this as a career path but to interpret particularly the African American narrative as far as enslave life. And the reason for this, is because like a lot of unknown history, my interest have always rested with the ones who are/were behind the scenes, ones whose stories you do not always hear about. And that holds true when it comes to the enslaved men, women, and children who had to endure through a peculiar institution like slavery.
The career path that I have taken has led me to now wanting to tell the life and times of Simon (Calhoun) Manager. Simon was my 3x great grandfather who came from Keowee Heights plantation in Pickens County, South Carolina, which was owned by the Colhoun family. Through 20 years of genealogical research, I was able to uncover the plantation journal where it highlighted many of the activities of the enslaved as well as Simon. Simon was listed as a “stockminder”, which was someone who dealt with the animal husbandry on the plantation. Their were instances where he was noted for gathering all the cows and sheep on the plantation as well as sheering neighboring plantations sheep. Simon was also noted for being a preacher on the plantation, but I have yet to definitively find any information on what kind of role he actually played in that capacity. The Keowee Heights plantation list family groupings which included Simon, his wife, Krecia, and their 8 children. After slavery, Simon became a sharecropper and a ruling elder at Abel Baptist Church in Clemson, South Carolina, where he and his wife, Krecia, are buried today.
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