For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy.

Walking into the Gately Gallery in downtown Florence is like stepping back into the early 1800s in Charleston.

Scientists have created a groundbreaking map of strontium isotopes found across sub-Saharan Africa—which could help ...

Many of Charleston's finest homes were planter ... The possession of slaves renders South Carolina planters proud, impatient of restraint, and gives them a haughtiness of manner which, to those ...

Nestled along the Charleston Harbor, t (IAAM) stands as a powerful tribute to the rich and complex history of African ...

In particular, Charleston in South Carolina was dominated for several decades of the nineteenth century by an oligarchy of slave-owning planter families. A review of Charleston historiography reveals ...

State lawmaker wants to add security for Confederate monuments not just related to the Civil War. It comes as South Carolina ...

South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road ... disrupted the colonial government in nearby Charlestown (Charleston), and word had just arrived that England and ...

With its antebellum grandeur, historic churches and cobblestone streets, Charleston, South Carolina ... as well as on the slave trade and rice economy. David Hood, head butler at The Spectator ...

The Old Slave Mart Museum was the last slave auction ... The post 37 Best Things to Do in Charleston, SC appeared first on Paige Minds The Gap.

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South ... Fort Sumter in Charleston, plunging the ...