African-Americans

Sheriff’s efforts to train and license lay midwives in South Carolina during the postwar decades reveal the pragmatism that guided her public health policies.

Located near the South Carolina–Georgia state line, Silver Bluff Baptist Church is one of the oldest independent African American Christian congregations in the United States.

Simkins’s contributions to the field of southern history were enormous. Two themes recurred in his writing: the South ought to be treated on its own terms; and the South possessed cultural characteristics that were different from those of the rest of the nation.

Simkins’s life embodied many of the ideals set forth by her parents. She proved herself as an independent leader and advocate for the black community.

Simmons’s most elaborate ironworks were created for homes in the celebrated Battery District near the harbor.

Lacking much formal education, Simms was a voracious reader and an acute observer. From his reading and his travel he absorbed history as well as local legends and acquired material for the volumes he would later writ

Gynecologist, surgeon. Sims was born near Hanging Rock Creek, Lancaster District, on January 25, 1813, and named Marion in honor…

Slave badges served as the physical proof required to demonstrate the legal status of slaves hired out by their masters.…

South Carolina’s earliest formal code of law regarding slaves, established in 1690, borrowed heavily from the statutes governing slavery on…

Slavery was work, and for most slaves it was monotonous and relatively undifferentiated labor. Lowcountry South Carolina plantations were distinguished…

Slave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in the colonial and antebellum periods of South Carolina’s history. From…

Enslaved Africans arriving in South Carolina brought their traditional belief systems with them, and until the early nineteenth century, Christianity…

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important demographic, social, and economic events of the modern era. It…

Africans were imported in significant numbers from about the 1690s, and by 1715 the black population made up about sixty percent of the colony’s total population. This marked another distinctive feature of South Carolina, for it was the only colony in English North America where this proportion existed.

Smalls’s war-time accomplishments made him a political force in the Sea Islands, with its overwhelmingly black population. In 1867 Smalls was one of the founders of the Republican Party in South Carolina, an organization to which he remained loyal all his life.

Merchant, politician, planter. Smith was born in South Carolina in 1717, the eldest child of the planter and politician Thomas…

U.S. senator. Born near the North Carolina border, Smith spent most of his life in York District. After studying with…

Operating under the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, the South Carolina Highway Patrol is a law enforcement organization that…

After the Civil War, South Carolina’s Republican politicians recognized that the lack of access to land by former slaves was…

The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, located in Columbia, was established by the General Assembly in 1821. It did not open,…