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In the Introduction of Primitive Tools, a speaker describes prehistory and primitive tool-making in a humorous way. Tools from the beginning of human use are explored.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Part 4 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
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Part 2 of Project Discovery's look at the Orangeburg Massacre on its 40th anniversary.
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CONGAREE SWAMP STORIES CAMP WORKSHOP SPEAKER Recollections of Precarious Visits to Kingville and Working Beside the Railroad at the Commissary Store, In Addition to Fond Remembrances of Smells and of...
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CONGAREE SWAMP STORIES CAMP WORKSHOP SPEAKER The Pleasures and the Dangers of Hunting the Animals of the Swamp and Observing Its Wildlife, Including Snakes and Snake Bites Mr. John Paul lives in...
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CONGAREE SWAMP STORIES CAMP WORKSHOP SPEAKER An Account of Baptism, How Things Were Different and What Still Remains, Including Conversations About Fishing, Drum Shouts and Cotton Gins Ms. Ruby Rice...