Descendants of people enslaved at the site are grappling with its complicated history while also honoring the region's rich ...

Even on plantations without any Native people ... Native people and Africans and the evolution of early South Carolina in the Atlantic world. Reviewer Bernard E. Powers Jr. is director of the ...

On the eve of the American Civil War, Democratic Sen. James Henry Hammond of South Carolina warned his Northern colleagues ...

thousands of Africans were being imported each year to the colony of South Carolina, where they were forced to work in clearing land and cultivating the rapidly expanding rice plantations ...

Yes, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds had their wedding at a former plantation, and controversy ensued. The A-list stars that we love and adore chose South Carolina's Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens ...

South Carolina, September 9 ... in St. Augustine would give a positive reception to slaves escaping from Carolina plantations. But what may have actually triggered the rebellion on September ...

This small island is home to a community of Gullah people, who are the descendants of enslaved West Africans brought to South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia to work on plantations.

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population. Boy, 4, Has Died After ...