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Prince Rivers
Prince Rivers (1824–1887) was a former slave from South Carolina who served as a soldier in the Union Army and as a state politician during the Reconstruction era. He escaped and joined Union lines, becoming a sergeant in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a Union regiment in the American Civil War.〔Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. ''Army Life in a Black Regiment.'' 1869.〕
He had gained literacy as a slave and after the war joined the Republican Party. He served as a delegate to the 1868 state constitutional convention, becoming known as an orator. He was one of three African-American founders of Aiken County in 1871, helped pick the site for the courthouse, and served as the state legislator from the county through 1874. He also served as a trial judge.
==Early life and education==
Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, Prince R. Rivers worked on the Henry Middleton Stuart, Sr. (1803–1872) or H.M. Stuart plantation known as Oak Point or Pages Point. He served with the household staff and as carriage driver,〔(Matthew Pinsker, "General Hunter “Confiscates” Prince Rivers" ), 8 November 2012, Emancipation Digital Classroom〕 among the elite of the estate's slaves, and learned to read and write. He escaped from slavery in 1862 after his master moved with his slaves to Edgefield County. Rivers stole one of Stuart's horses and rode through the Confederate lines to Beaufort, which was occupied by Union troops.〔(W. Scott Poole, ''South Carolina's Civil War: A Narrative History'' ), Mercer University Press, 2005, p. 77〕 He volunteered to enlist in the Union Army. By the summer of 1862, more than 10,000 slaves had fled from Lowcountry and Midlands plantations to join Union lines along the coast.〔Poole (2005), ''South Carolina's Civil War'', p. 104.〕
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