Slavery in South Carolina

Learn about the economics and hardships of slavery in South Carolina

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The combination of seafood like fish or shrimp with grits has its origins in Charleston, South Carolina. Grits, an ancient staple, predate European conquest, African enslavement, and the founding of...

Rice in South Carolina | Carolina Snaps

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In 1685, John Thurber, a pirate, inadvertently introduced rice to America. After a storm damaged his ship, he stopped in Charleston, SC, where he met Dr. Henry Woodward. In exchange for assistance...

3D VR - Avery Research Center | Let's Go!

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is located on the site of the former Avery Normal Institute. It was a hub for Charleston’s African American community from 1865–1954...

From Africa to The White House: Civil Rights and Desegregation | ABC Lessons | Arts Grow SC Resources

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From Africa to the White House is a 3 part series that traces the journey of enslaved Africans from the regions of West Africa to America. It covers slavery, reconstruction and the Civil Rights Bill...

From Africa to The White House: Reconstruction and the Great Migration: Ann Caldwell | ABC Lessons | Arts Grow SC Resources

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From Africa to The White House: Slavery and Freedom: Ann Caldwell | ABC Lessons | Arts Grow SC Resources

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The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 2 | History In A Nutshell

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After the Civil War, the U.S. had a long road ahead for rebuilding the country. In addition to fixing the country's infrastructure, the U.S. needed to mend the social and political inequities many...

The Reconstruction Amendments, Part 1 | History In A Nutshell

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Grades: 4 8 9 10 11 12

The question of "the peculiar institution" known as slavery had been hotly debated long before the American Civil War. This video outlines the reasons the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S...

Beyond Barbados Part 3: The Barbados Adventures Lesson Plan

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Grades: 4, 6, 8

Beyond Barbados Part 3- The Barbados Adventures video segment focuses on the growth and wealth of Barbados with sugar cane as the cash crop. It notes that Europeans developed plantations throughout...

Fort Frederick, Chapter 5

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The fort holds clues to the lives of the enslaved men, women and children who built the South.

Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories

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The Barbados Adventurers With the success of the sugarcane crop, Barbados quickly became the wealthiest colony in the New World, and the most densely populated place on the planet. Successful...

Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories

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Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education

A Cultural Hearth The success of Barbados, Carolina, America, the New World for that matter is coterminous with slavery. The labor, the technology, the ingenuity, and the culture that supported this...

Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories

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Grades: 4 6 8 9 10 Higher Education

Colony Of A Colony Most of the colonists who settled in Carolina were wealthy English planters, with names such as Middleton, Drayton, Colleton, and Yeamans. The vast wealth accrued in Carolina was...

Beyond Barbados | Carolina Stories

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Grades: 6 8 9 Higher Education

In The Beginning Most students today understand that the Carolinas were colonized by the English who had come to the Charleston area by way of Caribbean trade routes, primarily Barbados. The story of...

Beyond Barbados: Sweet Success | Carolina Stories

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Grades: 6 8 9 10 11 Higher Education

Sweet Success Dutch Sephardic Jewish colonists moved from Brazil to Barbados to escape the religious persecution of the Spanish Inquisition. These Sephardic Jews brought with them the knowledge to...

Part 2: Sweet Success - Beyond Barbados: The Carolina Connection

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Grades: 4, 6, 8

History never really happens in a vacuum. Barbados was an amalgam of many cultures, which was made even more complicated by the social control of those in power over those enslaved. The clash of...

David Drake | SC African American History Calendar (2019)

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

David Drake, also known as “Dave the Potter” and “Dave the Slave,” (c.1801-c.1870) was an American potter who lived in Edgefield, S.C. Dave produced alkaline-glazed stoneware jugs between the 1820s...

Colonoware | South Carolina Public Radio

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"C" is for Colonoware. On historic-period sites in South Carolina, archaeologists often find locally made, hand-built unglazed pottery that was fired in open hearths rather than kilns. Vessels and...

Praise Houses | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"P" is for Praise Houses. “Praise houses” (sometimes called “prayer houses”) functioned on antebellum South Carolina plantations as both the epitome of slave culture and symbols of resistance to...

Slave Patrols | South Carolina Public Radio

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Grades: 6 7 8

"S" is for Slave Patrols. Slave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in colonial and antebellum South Carolina. Like the state’s earliest slave codes, the earliest slave patrol systems...

African American Contributions | Hanover House

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Grades: 3 4 8

William Hiott and Patrick McMillan discuss the contributions made by African Americans. When Paul de St. Julien died in 1741, he owned forty-five slaves. Most of the profit which came from St. Julien...

Between The Waters, Part 2

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Grades: 3 4 5

In the 16th century, Spanish and English settlers came to colonize Hobcaw Barony. This was a dark time for the Waccamaw people, for Spaniards colonized Waccamaw land without regard for the natives...

Between The Waters, Part 3

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, rice was the most produced crop in the United States, and provided the most wealth. Historian Daniel Littlefield, and botanist Richard Porcher, discuss rice’s African...

Plat Map Of Camden | History Of SC Slide Collection

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The town of Camden was one of the first official settlements to be laid out in the interior of South Carolina in the 1730s. Settlers flooded into the backcountry during the quarter century of peace...

Slavery in South Carolina

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