Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
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Historic South Carolina Home Rebuilt After the Civil War Listed for $4.9 Million
A 135-year-old riverfront home in Bluffton, South Carolina, hit the market last week for $4.9 million.
The Civil War Still Echoes in the South, Forcing Towns to Take Sides
EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...
History Cautions Against Pardons for Jan. 6 Rioters
After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...
South Carolina schools’ race, gender rules face civil rights lawsuit
The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...
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South Carolina
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 ...
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CIVIL WAR
Robert Smalls’s statue will be the first to honor an individual Black citizen on South Carolina State House grounds. In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would ...