While Charleston's African-American heritage can be appreciated year-round, the month of February, known as Black History month, is an ideal time to check out Boone Hall Plantation and Garden's new ...

From 1670 until 1865, the majority of blacks living in Orangeburg County were enslaved. The life that they lived covered multifaceted conditions. Descriptions of their circumstances would vary from ...

For 27 years, Gladys Quander Tancil's storytelling powers drew crowds at Mount Vernon. Visitors sought her out to hear her breathe life into the history of Gen. George Washington and his estate along ...

Arguably the finest body of literature produced by American historians since 1960 has been the work reappraising the South's "peculiar institution." But before new views could take hold, the ...

Slave insurance was one of America’s earliest forms of industrial risk management that provided an important source of revenue for companies On the morning of April 20, 1859, a terrible explosion ...

The sign in question was posted in the detached kitchen as part of the “Slave Life at Rosedown” exhibit. At one point, some 850 enslaved Africans were forced into labor on what was once one of the ...