Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
PBS9y
Noel Ignatiev on the Civil War and emancipation
That before the war ... passed during that period that indicated in a small way what the possibilities of a genuinely free republic might have been. There was talk about seizing the plantations ...
PBS7y
Is Anybody Looking? Runaway Slaves and the Refugee Crisis in Civil War America
Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia ... facing African Americans during the perilous transition from ...
The Daily Tar Heel3d
PlayMakers 'Confederates' draws historic parallels, uses humor
"Confederates" engages audiences in the stories of two women from different time periods connected through experiences of ...
Post and Courier6y
Pre-Revolutionary War plantation home near Charleston on the market for $8.875 million
Apr 13, 2018 Apr 13, 2018 Updated Sep 14, 2020 Like much of old Charleston, Fenwick Hall Plantation ... during the War of Independence and later used as a field hospital by Union forces during the ...
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Slavery and the Civil War
Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.