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The Biblical Garden provides a thoughtful change of pace, featuring plants mentioned in scripture and creating tangible connections to ancient texts. Olive trees, date palms, and fig trees grow ...
The Peacock Café offers a pleasant spot to rest and refuel during your explorations. Named for the spectacular birds that roam the property like feathered royalty, it serves Southern classics that hit ...
In McCormick and Willington, South Carolina, you can find history everywhere you look. For this episode of “Your Hometown ...
New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
An Upstate man carves tombstones the old fashioned way for individuals and most recently an entire slave cemetery in Rock ...
WJCL spotlights the history and impacts across Coastal Georgia and the South Carolina Lowcountry. Juneteenth, also known as ...
We’re centering our Juneteenth coverage in Charleston, South Carolina, first talking about slave tags with Chad Stewart, ...
The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...
Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...
Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort, South Carolina, that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The ...