Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Boone Hall Plantation: Gullah Story About the Adam's Apple

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Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant ( boonehallplantation.com ) has a walking tour of its slave cabin lane featuring different stories t...
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Low Country Chapel Of Ease at St. Helena, South Carolina

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During the Colonial period, chapels of ease were constructed by rice and cotton planters as houses of worship because their plantations were...
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The US Civil War's "Port Royal Experiment"

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"Port Royal Experiment" The Port Royal Experiment, also called the Sea Island Experiment, was an early humanitarian effort to prep...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

“Millions to a Negro Girl - Sarah Rector, 10-Year Old, Has Income of $300 A Day From Oil,”

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"Sarah Rector," by Stacey Patton , “Oil Made Pickaninny Rich – Oklahoma Girl With $15,000 A Month gets Many Proposals – Four White...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

The State of South Carolina's Disdain Of The Value of Education

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The State, South Carolina Homepage article "Nine ways the Civil War changed and continues to affect S.C.,"Sep. 25, 2011: 6. Disd...
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Boston: African Meeting House and Abiel Smith School

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On a hill named Beacon, on a street named Joy, stand the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School. The African Meeting House (1806) ...
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Confederate Flag Removed in Palestine, Texas

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The first national flag of the Confederacy is removed from the flagpole outside the Anderson County (Texas) Courthouse. (Photo by the Palest...
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Preserving African American History in Boston

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From the Boston Globe , by Brian R. Ballou, on September 23, 2007: Peeling back the layers of years from the walls of the African Meeting Ho...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Sons of Mississippi, Paul Hendrickson

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"This photograph was taken in late September 1962, seven years after the killing of Emmett Till. The photograph, which isn't an ico...
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Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

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The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with smal...
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