Black History Month is celebrated every February to honor the achievements of African Americans who have shaped American history. Historian Carter G. Woodson hoped to raise awareness of African American's contributions to civilization by establishing Negro History Week. The event was first celebrated during a week in February 1926 that included both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass' birthdays. The week was later expanded to a month in 1976 during the United States bicentennial.
PHOTO: On March 20, 1969, Black hospital workers at the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston went on strike to protest the firing of twelve employees and to call for higher wages and union recognition.
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In this first segment on ‘The Importance of Cotton,’ Dr. Peter Coclanis gives us a brief overview of South Carolina’s economic landscape, pre-Revolutionary War (1763). Before the American Revolution...
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Dr. Peter Coclanis, the Albert Ray Newsome Distinguished Professor & Director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, joins Dr. Edgar for the first of a...
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In this segment, Walter Edgar discusses the Heyward Brothers, and their method of digging “rice dikes” for growing rice. The Heyward Brothers are seen as the pioneers of the tidal cultivation in South...
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In this first segment on Slavery In South Carolina, Dr. Larry Watson outlines the demographics between African-Americans and Whites, before, during, and immediately after the American Revolution...
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In this segment, Dr. Watson discusses how people figured out ways get around slave laws.
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Dr. Watson outlines the South Carolina Slave Code, originating with the 1740 “Negro Act.” The code is the system of etiquette for slave life, and penalties for various offenses.
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Dr. Larry Watson discusses the reasons why, between 1787 and 1803, South Carolina forbade the importation of new slaves. This resulted in the rise of the domestic slave trade in the Southern U.S.
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For the second lecture in this four-part series of Conversations on South Carolina: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828. Dr. Larry Watson discusses slavery in South Carolina. Professor Watson is...
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Dr. Larry Watson discusses the motivations for South Carolina halting the importation of new slaves from Africa, between 1787 and 1803.
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In this segment, Dr. Watson outlines the differences in management systems between rice plantations, and cotton plantations.
