Martin Luther King Jr., who wrote parts of his “I Have a Dream” speech in South Carolina, was scheduled to be in Columbia on ...

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 ...

White potters working in the Edgefield area in the mid-1800s may have seen the slave-made vessels and taken the idea with them as they moved out of South Carolina. National Museum of American History ...

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“We’re sitting here making history together as Black, white, tall, short, Republican, Democrat — it’s an amazing thing,” Johnson said. “This is South Carolina right here,” Cox said. Robert Smalls was ...

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 ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ... bloodiest four years in American history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy ...