The 400 acres of land along South Carolina Highway 61 was acquired in the late 17th century. It was home to the Drayton ...

Behind her stood the cabin where her great-great-great-great-grandparents, Lucy and Anthony Henley, lived while enslaved at ...

These plantations represented estates ranging in magnitude from ... 7 First explored by the Spanish in the first half of the sixteenth century, both North Carolina and South Carolina stemmed from ...

In late October, Marion “Rollen” Chalmers stood next to a rice field ringed by pines and palm trees. He pointed out roseate ...

This small island is home to a community of Gullah people, who are the descendants of enslaved West Africans brought to South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia to work on plantations.

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by 1720 slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population. Rep. Nancy Mace Accuses ...

Little did the leaves that legendarily floated into an open pot of boiling water next to Chinese Emperor Shennong in the 28th century B.C. know they would change the world. The combination of ...