Singleton, GeorgeShort story writer, novelist, educator. Born in Anaheim, California, on May 13, 1958, and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina, Singleton…
Sirrine, Joseph EmoryArchitect, engineer. Sirrine, an important industrial architect and engineer practicing in South Carolina, was born on December 9, 1872, in…
Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of MercyThe Catholic bishop John England founded the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy in Charleston in 1829, using…
Slave BadgesSlave badges served as the physical proof required to demonstrate the legal status of slaves hired out by their masters.…
Slave CodesSouth Carolina’s earliest formal code of law regarding slaves, established in 1690, borrowed heavily from the statutes governing slavery on…
Slave LaborSlavery was work, and for most slaves it was monotonous and relatively undifferentiated labor. Lowcountry South Carolina plantations were distinguished…
Slave PatrolsSlave patrols were a crucial mechanism of slave control in the colonial and antebellum periods of South Carolina’s history. From…
Slave ReligionEnslaved Africans arriving in South Carolina brought their traditional belief systems with them, and until the early nineteenth century, Christianity…
Slave TradeThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important demographic, social, and economic events of the modern era. It…
SlaveryAfricans 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.
SmallpoxAn acute, highly contagious viral disease, smallpox was a major threat in South Carolina from the late seventeenth century until…
Smalls, RobertSmalls’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.
Smith, Alice Ravenel HugerArtist. Smith was born in Charleston on July 14, 1876, the daughter of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith and Caroline Ravenel.…
Smith, ArthurMusician. Thanks to the widespread popularity of his instrumental hit “Guitar Boogie,” Arthur Smith became one of the better-known guitarists…
Smith, BenjaminMerchant, politician, planter. Smith was born in South Carolina in 1717, the eldest child of the planter and politician Thomas…
Smith, Charles AureliusBanker, governor. Smith was born in North Carolina on January 22, 1861, the son of Joseph Smith. After attending local…
Smith, Ellison DurantU.S. senator. Smith was born in Sumter District (later Lee County) on August 1, 1864, one of ten children born…
Smith, Gregory WhiteWriter, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1951, to William R. Smith, a hotel administrator,…
Smith, Nell WhitleyLegislator, educator, businesswoman. Smith, the daughter of Arthur Hugh Smith and Alice Beryl Whitley, was born in Washington, North Carolina,…
Smith, ThomasGovernor. Born in England around 1648, Smith immigrated with his family to Carolina in 1683, likely as a member of…
