Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1839 ... We've got a lot of history, good and bad. This ...
Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ... bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy ...
Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...
“It’s made me realize a lot of local history that I thought I knew. But the more I dug into it, I realized I didn’t know." Archeologists helped him confirm the burial site belonged to slaves.