Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments USCT

South Carolina Senator Mocks Mixed-Race Reconstruction Era Legislator’s Complexion!

South Carolina’s lukewarm effort to commemorate African American achievement during Reconstruction took one step forward and two steps backward this week. The state capitol saw…

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Posted in Slavery

South Carolina “A White Man Named Taylor, Who Had Made Negroes His Only Companions…”

In spite of all the nonsense Lost Cause writers once spun about whites and slaves being friends in the Old South, those whites who formed…

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When Free Blacks Had to Wear Badges to Show Their Racial Status in South Carolina August 1860

While there were “free Blacks” living in South Carolina before the Civil War, their position was precarious and their freedoms were circumscribed. This article in…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction

South Carolina Historical Preservation Law Obscures History of Reconstruction

Ehren Foley holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina and is an editor at the University of South Carolina Press….

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction

University of South Carolina Held Teacher Training on Reconstruction Era

For years, the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) Center for Civil Rights History and Research held a three week training for teachers on Reconstruction in…

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Posted in Ku Klux Klan Slavery

South Carolina Plantation to Tell the Story of the African Americans Who Escaped From It

Historic Brattonsville in McConnells, S.C. is working on a new exhibit focusing on four people enslaved at the plantation at the center of the historic…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction

New Reconstruction Trail Opened in Columbia, South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina was the capital when the state had its first Black-majority legislature. From 1865 to 1876 it was the center of a civil…

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Posted in Elections White Supremacy White Terror

“A dead Radical is very harmless” How to Win the Election of 1876

The Election of 1876 is most well-known for what happened after the polls were closed. Fraudulent and delayed vote counts, rival state tallies of votes,…

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Posted in Jim Crow Memory of Reconstruction

Woodrow Wilson’s Home Renamed “Museum of Reconstruction at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home”

Woodrow Wilson was infamous for his support of Jim Crow. While the progressive president had real accomplishments, his record on race was abysmal, even by…

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Posted in White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Defending the Right of Whites to Fire Blacks Who Voted Republican to Prevent Mongrelism- South Carolina Nov. 1868

Supporters of white supremacy did not only use violence to influence the votes of African Americans. They also threatened to fire them if they voted…

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