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

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...

slaves made up at least 20% of the populations of most Southern cities. In Charleston, South Carolina, slaves and free blacks outnumbered whites. Many slaves living in cities worked as domestics ...

For more than 30 years, the SC African American Heritage Commission has taken a serious effort in preserving the rich African ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and ...

Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Joyner, Charles W. Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community. Urbana and Chicago: ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...