Caeser P. Chisolm was a state legislator. He represented

Colleton County, South Carolina Colleton County is a county 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 e ...

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, seatin ...

. 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 The 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 ...

. 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 ''Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States'' (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progres ...

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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 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly {{SouthCarolina-politician-stub

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