One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

They both reside in South Carolina, but their names are ... by reopening the African Slave -- trade. The individuals of the first of these classes own from twenty to fifty slaves each; and are ...

Henry Laurens, a slave trader and the president of South Carolina's patriotic First Provincial Congress, reported that Thomas was "puffed up by prosperity, ruined by Luxury and debauchery and ...

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded.

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

Tim Scott and South Carolina's Governor Will ... Abraham Lincoln’s call to abolish slavery and restrict free trade, and the Palmetto State became the first Southern state to secede from the ...