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
edit- ^ "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.
- ^ https://schistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Simons-and-Simons-431.00.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Tk". Orangeburg Times. 3 July 1873. p. 4.
- ^ "The Orangeburg Democrat from Orangeburg, South Carolina on July 18, 1879 · Page 2". 18 July 1879.
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