Thaddeus Sasportas
Thaddeus Kenlock Sasportas was a state legislator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era.[1] He represented Chester County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives. A document describes him as a slave before the American Civil War, as being a Baptist minister, and as Black.[2]
Born in Charleston, he was educated in Philadelphia.[3] He served as Orangeburg County treasurer.[4]
In 1876, he proposed splitting the millage funding schools evenly between white and "colored" schools as a compromise agreement. A newspaper notice of the offer noted that the preponderance of students were African American.[5] He was declared bankrupt and his property and cotton gin were put up for auction in 1879.[6]
References
- ↑ "Thursday's Editorial". The Times and Democrat. 22 March 2007.
- ↑ Hume, Richard L.; Gough, Jerry B. (October 8, 2008). Blacks, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags: The Constitutional Conventions of Radical Reconstruction. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807134702 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Reid, Richard (4 February 2012). "Orangeburg County's first black politicians". The Times and Democrat.
- ↑ "Simons & Simons records, 1714-1879" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-12.
- ↑ "Tk". Orangeburg Times. 3 July 1873. p. 4.
- ↑ "The Orangeburg Democrat from Orangeburg, South Carolina on July 18, 1879 · Page 2". 18 July 1879.
Categories:
- 19th-century American slaves
- Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
- People from Chester County, South Carolina
- Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina
- Politicians from Philadelphia
- 19th-century African-American politicians
- 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly
- African-American politicians of the Reconstruction era
- Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives stubs