Talk:William Lowndes (congressman)

more work needed
I cleaned this up this Sunday morning, while not in a library so I can't access census data nor the citations (also because of a dead link and site probably blocked because of malware). I suggest adding a list of his children, as well as his precise slaveholdings. Also, the article about his father should add material in the 2016 South Carolina encyclopedia article, and that for his half-brother Thomas should be edited similarly, though I personally have other matters to attend to. I also noted that according to https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/the-sun-of-the-southern-states-would-set-never-to-rise-again/ His father Rawlins Lowndes opposed ratification of the U.S. Constitution because of its prospective restriction on the slave trade. I am curious about any impact the suppressed Denmark Vesey slave uprising of 1822 had upon William Lowndes' plantations. For what it's worth, today's the anniversary of Harriet Tubman's death, and during the Civil War she helped lead U.S. Colored Troops who liberated over 700 slaves along another South Carolina river than that cited here, including from the plantation of Charles T. Lowndes, son of his half brother Thomas. C.T. Lowndes' son Col. Raleigh Lowndes fought in one of the Civil War's last battles, in North Carolina on April 15, 1865.15:43, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I do not see why his 'precise slaveholdings' should be of such interest, unless we're trying to prepare a rap-sheet. There are two references to 'enslaved labor', which was so universal in South Carolina at the time that it would not normally seem worth a mention. I think there's a diversity editor at work. Valetude (talk) 05:37, 15 April 2021 (UTC)