An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The Southern colonies, which eventually included Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, at times had more enslaved people within their borders than whites. Slaves were an ...

Harris, a professor of history at Northwestern University ... Henry and John Laurens, father and son in a wealthy South Carolina slave-owning family, had come to believe that slavery was wrong ...

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 ...