An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...

In Charleston, South Carolina, slaves and free blacks ... There were also numerous instances of slave revolts throughout the history of the institution. (For one white interpretation of slave ...

South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

Robert Smalls was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1839 ... We've got a lot of history, good and bad. This ...

White potters working in the Edgefield area in the mid-1800s may have seen the slave-made vessels and taken the idea with them as they moved out of South Carolina. National Museum of American History ...

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 dramatised the story of the only successful slave revolt in history, when 100,000 slaves ... an African-American man who escaped from slavery in South Carolina. After being kidnapped by the ...

“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.