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Johns Island & Wadmalaw

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Sea-island research stacks differ from peninsula Charleston.

Johns Island and Wadmalaw require island church, land, and plantation-name strategies distinct from peninsula parish research. Pair with African American land-after-freedom paths and Charleston papers.