Magnolia Plantation's inaugural holiday house exhibit will showcase how Christmas, as we know it today, became popular in the ...

I‘ve visited Charleston SC many times and have toured every ... explain the contrast between slave owners and slaves, but McLeod Plantation really dives into the complex relationships between ...

Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ... 20% of the populations of most Southern cities. In Charleston, South Carolina, slaves and free blacks outnumbered whites.

Today, visitors can walk through nine preserved slave cabins ... The plantation is located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which is across the river from downtown Charleston (about 15 miles ...

The great-great-grandson of a slave ... blockading the South Carolina coast is the new president and CEO of the planned $75 million International African American Museum in Charleston.

Olaudah Equiano, former slave Slavery became a highly profitable system for white plantation owners in the colonial South. In South Carolina ... settled on land near Charleston, Carolina's ...

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 ... Fort Sumter in Charleston, plunging the ...

Charleston is known for its charming ... Drayton Hall, located on the Ashley River, is the only plantation house in South Carolina that survived both the American Revolution and the Civil War.