- Author
- Hopkins, Leroy.
- Date of Publication
- 1986.
County, free
Black communities tended to emerge where slaves had been held.
Further references to Bethel in Payne"s history are sparse. For 1841 it was
reported that the Columbia circuit had 1 school, 3 teachers, and 30 scholars.
The Lancaster circuit, by comparison, had 1 school, 3 teachers, and 20