Anne Simons Deas Papers, ca. 1900

The Anne Simons Deas Papers, ca. 1900 Collection contains bound papers written by Anne Simons Deas, the daughter of Elias Deas and Ann Ball. A published author, Anne Deas wrote Points of Colonial Interest Around Summerville. Dorchester, Newington, Ingleside, St. James, Goose Creek (1905) and Recollections of the Ball Family of South Carolina and the Comingtee Plantation (1909). These bound papers, written in 1900, discuss the planting and harvesting of rice performed by freed men and women, as well as the atmosphere of the rice fields, describing how the workers sang hymns and conversed with one another.