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

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

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 ...

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

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

Lawyers for South Carolina and Planned Parenthood are returning to the state’s highest court to argue how restrictive the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...