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Smith singing at the 1988 Harborwalk Festival in Georgetown, SC. Aired on "Midday 5" program with WCSC-TV in Charleston, South CarolinaLearn about the economics and hardships of slavery in South Carolina
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Smith singing at the 1988 Harborwalk Festival in Georgetown, SC. Aired on "Midday 5" program with WCSC-TV in Charleston, South CarolinaVideo
Family Across the Sea, Part 4 Like the Black Seminoles who fled white civilization, blacks began to return to Africa in the 19th century. Historian Alpha Bah has studied the return of blacks to Sierra...Video
Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...Video
Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...Video
Family Across the Sea, Part 1 This award-winning program explores the remarkable connections between the Gullah of the South Carolina/Georgia Sea Islands and the people of West Africa, particularly...Video
Learn the history of African-American tenant farmers during the era of reconstruction as Karl McAlis ter , Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour of the two remaining hewn timber...Video
Find out how slaves were transported from West Africa to South Carolina. Also, discover the culture and language influences as Karl McAlister, Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour...Video
Learn the history of Georgetown, South Carolina as well as the booming rice culture supported by slavery.Video
Examine the life of African American slaves as Karl McAlister, Francis Marion University Librarian, takes us on a tour of the two remaining hewn timber cabins from the Gregg Plantation in Florence...Video
The history and culture of African Americans in Georgetown, South Carolina