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The Black Codes: Jailer | Reconstruction 360
The Black Codes: Jailer | Reconstruction 360

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

There was little or no universal or public education in the Antebellum South. Only wealthy elites went to school, and most poor whites were illiterate. They remained ignorant of politics at the...
Grocery Store | KidsECON 1
Grocery Store | KidsECON
Episode 1

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Grades: PreK Kindergarten 1 2 3

Laila takes us on a tour through the grocery store. Learn the difference between a need and a want in the first episode of KidsECON. About the Series Laila, Ella, and Jayden are taking part in a...
The Black Codes: Labor Contract | Reconstruction 360
The Black Codes: Labor Contract | Reconstruction 360

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

The Freedmen’s Bureau helped create labor contracts that were supposed to be fair to both parties, but in many cases established conditions not much better than slavery. This system became known as...
The Black Codes: Landowner | Reconstruction 360
The Black Codes: Landowner | Reconstruction 360

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

Like most former Confederates, this landowner resents the authority of U.S. Army officers and the Freedmen’s Bureau. Fearful that their agricultural economy would collapse without the free labor of...
The Black Codes: Freedwoman | Reconstrucion 360
The Black Codes: Freedwoman | Reconstrucion 360

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

The wife of the jailed freedman has come to the jail to support her husband in his contract dispute with the white landowner. In 1865 and 1866, following the example of Northern Blacks, freedpeople in...
The Black Codes: The Pink Palace | Reconstruction 360
The Black Codes: The Pink Palace | Reconstruction 360

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Grades: 7 8 9 10 11 12

This scene was shot inside the Orangeburg County Jail, also known as the Pink Palace, in Orangeburg, South Carolina. The jail was built in 1860 with offices on the first floor and cells for prisoners...
Skytrails Exhibit
Skytrails Exhibit

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Grades: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

The South Carolina Military Museum’s newly unveiled “South Carolina Airfields: Then and Now” exhibit aims to tell the story of the Palmetto State’s contributions and involvement in the field of...