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South Carolina's historical events, people and places. Content has been curated to meet South Carolina Social Studies Standards.
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Work Song | Gullah Music
Work Song | Gullah Music
Episode 3

Audio

Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Enslaved Africans sang songs as they worked to help keep the pace of the task they were doing. A leader called out a verse or yell and others responded. This is the call-and-response singing tradition...
Middle Passage | Gullah Music
Middle Passage | Gullah Music
Episode 2

Audio

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

European slave traders brought Africans to the New World on ships as early as the 1400s. These voyages across the Atlantic Ocean are called the Middle Passage. It was a terrible experience for the...
Roots in the River, Part 4 | Carolina Stories 4
Roots in the River, Part 4 | Carolina Stories
Episode 4

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In 1970, the environmental movement was just beginning, and the country's youth were taking up the cause. In Columbia, a group of young people began listening to Harry Hampton, building up the the...
Roots in the River, Part 8 | Carolina Stories 8
Roots in the River, Part 8 | Carolina Stories
Episode 8

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Congaree Land Trust helps to preserve the land surrounding the park and its neighboring rivers, the Congaree, the Wateree and the Santee Within this huge river system known as the Cowasee Basin...
Roots in the River, Part 3 | Carolina Stories 3
Roots in the River, Part 3 | Carolina Stories
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Congaree land was leased to a well-known nature writer, Harry Hampton, and his brothers for a hunt club. But Harry, who served as associate editor of The State Newspaper for many years, was more...
Roots in the River, Part 2 | Carolina Stories 2
Roots in the River, Part 2 | Carolina Stories
Episode 2

Video

Grades: 1 3

Bottomland hardwood forests once spread out along the banks of all Southern floodplain rivers, covering 15 million acres. Today, all the great Southern river-bottom forests have been cleared or...
Roots in the River, Part 7 | Carolina Stories 7
Roots in the River, Part 7 | Carolina Stories
Episode 7

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

In 2003, the Congaree became the nation's 57th national park, the only one in South Carolina. The visitor's center is named for Harry Hampton, who died in 1980. It has been declared an international...
Roots in the River, Part 5 | Carolina Stories 5
Roots in the River, Part 5 | Carolina Stories
Episode 5

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

By 1975, public sentiment in favor of protecting the forest was growing, and the issue was gaining media attention. In June 1975, Gov. James B. Edwards took a stand against the land being condemned...
Roots in the River, Part 6 | Carolina Stories 6
Roots in the River, Part 6 | Carolina Stories
Episode 6

Video

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

When a group of kids came on a school bus to tour the Swamp, Frank Beidler was touched, and the Beidlers expressed a willingness to sell the property. But the Senators couldn't agree. The Legislative...