A historic South Carolina church that has existed since the Civil War was recently bestowed the honor of a historical marker ...

Community members in Greenville County, South Carolina ... grounds hold much of Greenville County's history and is a resting place for many former slaves, according to the Upstate Cemetery ...

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

Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community ... the American Historical Association entitled The New American History, Revised and Expanded Editions, series ed. Eric Foner (American ...

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 ...

The South Carolina Heritage Act protects a vast array of monuments, including Revolutionary War, African American history ... was an ardent defender of slavery — the reason for South ...

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 ...