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Caeser P. Chisolm was a state legislator. He represented
Colleton County, South Carolina Colleton County is in the Lowcountry region of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,604. Its county seat is Walterboro. The county is named after Sir John Colleton, 1st Baronet, one of the eight Lords ...
in the
South Carolina House of Representatives The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections. Unlike many legislatures, seati ...
. He provided testimony as a witness to injuries causing disability to U.S. Colored Troops veteran James Perkins. Chisolm received a charter to operate ferry service across the
Ashepoo River Ashepoo River is a short blackwater river in South Carolina, United States. It rises in a confluence of swamps south of Walterboro, flows in a southeast direction and empties into Saint Helena Sound at . The entire course of the river lies withi ...
. He served in the 55th General Assembly in 1882 and 1883. Two of his children, Tom.and Silvia, gave accounts to the Slave Narrative Project.


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African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchisement, ...


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Year of birth missing People from Colleton County, South Carolina Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives Year of death missing African-American state legislators in South Carolina African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era {{SouthCarolina-politician-stub