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For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians "250 years later, is the Spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...
Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...
Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...
There are 18 references to slaves, slavery and slaveholding in South Carolina’s declaration of secession, making the notion that the Civil War was fought over something as high-minded as states ...
The Trump Administration's reasons for resettling Afrikaners echo early U.S. debates about Haiti's independence.
Now that history is being passed on through the "From Slavery to Freedom" tour, during which visitors are introduced to the living conditions of those who were once enslaved on the plantation.
BOSTON, Massachusetts — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American ...
After years of legal challenges, photos of an enslaved man and his daughter held at a Harvard University museum will be transferred to an African American museum in South Carolina where the family ...
Harvard slave photos to South Carolina museum. That battle ended this week with an agreement that the photos will be moved to the International African American Museum, a Black history museum in ...
History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.