Aesop Goodson Explained

Office:	South Carolina House of Representatives

Aesop Goodson was a state legislator and judge in South Carolina.

He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives. He was removed from his position as a trial justice by the governor and alleged it was because he treated people fairly without regard to color.^[1] He and others formed the American Union Literary Club in 1872.^[2] He was African American.^[3]

His children included Napoleon Goodson and Thaddeus "Tad" Goodson (1869 - 1957). Thaddeus along with Scipio Shiver provided a White folklorist with folk tales he published.^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: Aesop Goodson. The Daily Phoenix. August 19, 1873. 2. newspapers.com.
2. Web site: An Act to Incorporate the American Union Literary Club of Gadsden, SC.
3. Web site: South Carolina Legislature Online - Search. www.scstatehouse.gov.
4. Web site: Congaree Sketches. Scenes from Negro Life in the Swamps of the Congaree and Tales by Tad and Scip of Heaven and Hell with Other Miscellany. Autograph Edition by Edward C. L. Adams, Paul Green on Ian Brabner, Rare. Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC (ABAA).