For enslaved Black Americans living through the Revolutionary War, freedom sometimes meant donning the red coat of the enemy. Such was the case for the Carolina Corps, a military unit comprising ...

The great-great-grandson of a slave who ... Museum in Charleston. Museum officials say Atlanta businessman Michael Boulware Moore, who has deep family roots in South Carolina, will head the ...

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, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road ... disrupted the colonial government in nearby Charlestown (Charleston), and word had just arrived that England and ...

In the rebel Senate the question was brought up on the employment of forty thousand negroes on the rebel fortifications, and to this Senator ORR, of South Carolina, very forcibly objected ...

Nearly 5 years after Charleston voted to removed the statue of John C. Calhoun from its pedestal overlooking Marion Square, ...

The demonstration in Charleston where about 500 people gathered in Hampton Park was part of nationwide movement that called for demonstrations in all 50 states.

With its antebellum grandeur, historic churches and cobblestone streets, Charleston, South Carolina ... as well as on the slave trade and rice economy. David Hood, head butler at The Spectator ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South ... Fort Sumter in Charleston, plunging the ...