These are folks that had hopes and dreams and lives and children," Lazenby explained. "And these folks, they really built ...

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 ...

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.

The first federal census of 1790 counted 697,897 slaves; by 1810 ... 20,000 came to Georgia and South Carolina in 1803 alone. Finally, on January 1, 1808, Congress did officially ban the ...

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 ...