“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.
Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community ... Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Revolt. New York: Knopf, 1999. Taylor, Yuval. I Was Born a Slave: An Anthology ...
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South Carolina to Erect Its First-Ever Statue Honoring African American: A Civil War Hero Who Posed as a Confederate Soldier to Steal a Slaver's ShipRobert 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 ...
Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...
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