Episode 224: South Carolina's Capitation Tax on Free People of Color, 1756–1864 by Charleston Time Machine published on 2022-01-28T22:25:46Z For more than a century, free people of African descent in the Palmetto State were required to pay a special "poll" or "head" tax every year to maintain their freedom. The amount of the tax and the range of exemptions changed over the years, and its application spread outward from Charleston as the state's population expanded in the nineteenth century. Read more: https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/south-carolinas-capitation-tax-free-people-color-1756-1864 Genre Storytelling