Excellent writing today, click here: wapo.st/3bj6C6z “No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619. Only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil…
Excellent writing today, click here: wapo.st/3bj6C6z “No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619. Only 8 percent of high school seniors can identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil…
“To the enslaved, these songs were everything.”
When it becomes habit for us to be able to rattle off our individual histories it will calm our spirits…….-Whoopi Goldberg James Island, South Carolina. Twenty years after acquiring McLeod Plantation from the Willie McLeod estate, the Historic Charleston Foundation…
A master drummer must have seven eyes. —African proverb Fresh Charleston history is always being unearthed in this most sacred and beautiful of American cities. What a pleasure it was for me to meet this week, local historian Dr. Nic…
Preserving the history of this culture, so rich in song and spirit is important. Today’s post is a request for action. Kindly log on to Washington Watch and say “Yes, funding this is important.” For more visit the pages at…
Designed, tradition says, by James Hoban, who was architect of The White House, the William Seabrook house is a view into the age of Edisto’s Sea Island Cotton days. General Lafayette visited for a feast and the fascinating and beautiful…
“Edisto Island is God’s country.” – Jack McCray, author of Charleston Jazz One is struck by the many churches lining the two lane road onto Edisto Island. Many are African American, understandably, since the island, since the first federal census,…
Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows/ Help us to see/that without the dust the rainbow/Would not be. – Langston Hughes This red-roofed handbuilt house on Point of Pines Road was built about 1885 by Henry Hutchinson for his bride, Rosa…
“Draw, preachuh, draw/ Draw roun’ duh haltuh/ Draw preachuh, draw/Draw til the break ob day.” – Draw Lebel, Shouting Spiritual Lyric sung on Edisto Island. (published in the book, The Carolina Low-Country, 1932) Charleston is nicknamed the Holy City. That…
“Give me silver or give me gold/though they are dangerous to our soul /27 July 1840” – Dave (slave potter) Edgefield, SC Living in South Carolina, with an ear open to authentic local craft and art, one hears often of…
Charleston Through an Artist's eye 