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 ...

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 ...

You know that feeling of going down a rabbit hole on the internet? One thought, one click, one page leading to dozens of others. That's kind of how it started for Jonathan Schroeder. JONATHAN ...

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 ...

The United States of America into which Willie Wright was born in 1837 was on a quick-time march toward a hardly inconceivable and ultimately unavoidable liminal conflict resulting in the Civil War.

John S. Jacobs was a fugitive, an abolitionist — and the brother of the canonical author Harriet Jacobs. Now, his own fierce autobiography has re-emerged. By Jennifer Schuessler One day in 1855, a man ...

One of the most respected higher-learning institutions in the United States, Yale University was named for American-born Englishman Elihu Yale (1649–1721). Yale was a governor and president of the ...