The man's name was Abraham. In a grainy 1889 photo of the plantation home belonging to Furman University's namesake family, he appears standing by the portico with his face obscured ...

Some of Charleston’s most revealing stories live outside its most visited attractions. It lingers in overlooked neighborhoods ...

The tours also touch on how slaves arrived here. “The people here in South Carolina wanted slaves from that particular part of Africa,” says Ragiola.

Charleston, South Carolina plantation transforms into a place of learning Every corner at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens tells a story of beauty -- and resilience Share Updated: 8:10 PM EDT May ...

Research conducted in the three postbellum plantation communities in the U.S. South that are referenced in this analysis—Boone Hall and Snee Farm in South Carolina and Kingsley Plantation in ...

South Carolina slave cabins housed family through ’60s CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Eighty-six-year-old Johnnie Leach leans on his cane as he sits in warm sunshine on the steps of the old slave ...

In 1860, there 402,406 people were living in South Carolina not because they wanted to but because they were enslaved. They made up 57 percent of the state’s population, according to census data.

Slavery is the reason my lineage exists in this country. Brought to coastal South Carolina in the 1730s, my ancestors were enslaved people whose labor helped make the state, at one point, one of ...

Slave plantation weddings use romantic love to romanticize America's racist historyThe plantations around Charleston, South Carolina, where I was raised, are today a major destination for ...

Researchers are unearthing artifacts under former slave quarters, filling in historical gaps of slaves, including black Indians. The Hume Plantation is an artifact rich site with pre-historic and ...

Insightfully reading the built environment of plantations, considering artifact fragments found in excavations of slave dwellings, and drawing on legal records and plantation owners' papers, Whitney ...