This week's question

In the boom of commercial activity in the late 1860s, 20 of the 23 "general" shops listed were dealers in what?

From last week

Question: What Reconstruction-era political leader owned more property than any other African-American in Beaufort in 1870?

Answer: Robert Smalls. His property was valued at $6,000.

First to answer correctly: W. Monroe Keyserling

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