South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...

A special committee has until January 15 to finalize the design, location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House ...

Robert Smalls escaped slavery by stealing a slaveowner's ship and later became a South Carolina political leader, championing equal rights and literacy. Soon he'll be honored as the first ...

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...

The texts, which seemingly follow the same script, reference slavery and picking cotton. University of South Carolina and ...

Starting the day after Election Day, Black Americans across nearly a dozen states have received texts telling them they have ...

South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor of a Civil War hero who escaped slavery and became a prominent political figure after pretending to be a ...

“The best way to sum up Robert Smalls’ life is it was a fight for freedom as a slave, as a pilot and as a statesman,” Campsen said. Then there is the matter of location. While South Carolina ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

Baylor's Meet the Author series held a conversation to unpack the story of early Baptists in the American South.

The Charleston peninsula's three historically Black Episcopal churches, St. Mark's, St. Stephen's and Calvary, lamented ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...