Thaddeus Sasportas

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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

  1. ↑ "Thursday's Editorial". The Times and Democrat. 22 March 2007.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Reid, Richard (4 February 2012). "Orangeburg County's first black politicians". The Times and Democrat.
  4. ↑ "Simons & Simons records, 1714-1879" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-05-12.
  5. ↑ "Tk". Orangeburg Times. 3 July 1873. p. 4.
  6. ↑ "The Orangeburg Democrat from Orangeburg, South Carolina on July 18, 1879 · Page 2". 18 July 1879.
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