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This family farm is home to best selling author Dorinda "Dori" Sanders, whose credits include "Clover" and "Her Own Place." During summer months, visitors can find Dori at the farm's roadside market selling fresh fruits and vegetables, autographing books, telling stories and entertaining customers.
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See sites and hear stories of Charleston's Black History and Gullah Geechee Culture from an African American perspective in our motorized Black History & Porgy and Bess Tour of Charleston, and Sea Island Tours of James and Johns Islands. Plantation and special tours available upon request. Combination tour of Charleston and the Sea Islands offers visitors a taste of all the Gullah / Geechee Culture. Step-On Bus Services. Tours depart daily from the Visitor Center, 375 Meeting Street.
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These nine brick slave homes at Boone Hall Plantation date to 1790-1810. Known collectively as "Slave Street," it is one of the few remaining intact in the Southeast. The only brick slave street in the United States, the brick cabins and Boone Hall were prominently featured in the television mini-series "North and South," based on John Jake's novel, and "Queen" based on Alex Haley's novel.
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The slave village contains six slave cabins and a slave chapel. In 1860, there were over one hundred slaves living and working in Mansfield. Major filming site for "The Patriot."
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The museum offers research and is a repository of historical documents, artifacts, photographs and memorabilia of the antebellum slave era.
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Follow in the footsteps of Gen. William T. Sherman's Union Army which passed through the Cotton Trail on its way into North Carolina during the Carolinas' Campaign in 1865. This driving tour highlights the cotton industry from farm to gin and everything in between. Real cotton fields line the roads as the trail goes from I-20 (Bishopville) through Hartsville, Society Hill, Cheraw, Bennettsville, Clio and on to I-95 near Dillon. Many sites along the trail are historic in nature and depict the architecture and "way of life" of the day.
From the time cotton was "king" in the South through present day, African-Americans have played a major role in the agricultural developments of South Carolina. The South Carolina Cotton Trail travels through five rural communities with sites that include Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden, the SC Cotton Museum, the home site where Simon Brown first spun the tales of Brer Rabbit, and Dizzy Gillespie's hometown. Drive and experience a taste of this dynamic facet of Southern and Pee Dee heritage. Step-on guides available for motorcoach groups.
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Founded in 1896 as the Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College of SC, this university makes up 10 historic buildings dating from 1917-1969. With its origins in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890 providing for land-grant colleges, intended "for the best education of the hand, head and heart of South Carolina's young manhood and womanhood of the Negro race." It became SC State College in 1954 and SC State University in 1992.
State is consistently among the national leaders in producing African-American students with baccalaureate degrees in biology, education, business, engineering technology/computer science/mathematics, and English language/literature. Moreover, they are one of three universities in South Carolina to offer a doctoral program in Educational Administration and one of two schools in the state to offer an accredited master's degree program in Speech-Language Pathology.
You will enjoy a wide variety of events and activities that make campus life special at STATE - NCAA Division I athletics for men and women, the world-famous Marching 101 band, the pageantry and history of Homecoming and Founder's Day, and many others. And because STATE is centrally located in South Carolina, you'll enjoy pleasant weather and easy access to the beaches, the mountains, and such metropolitan centers as Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, and Atlanta.
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According to tradition, the church was organized in 1867 in a blacksmith shop on Penney Hill. The present church was constructed in 1899 by builder R.H. Humbert. The brick Gothic Revival structure features a square tower topped by an octagonal spire sheathed in patterned metal on the left façade.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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On September 9 & 10, 1739 an Angolan slave by the name of Jemmy led 80 slaves from area plantations marching toward St. Augustine, Florida expecting freedom. After attacking a warehouse to seize weapons, burning homes, buildings and killing whites, a militia apprehended the group and almost thirty-four slaves were killed. These revolts lead to the passage of the most comprehensive slave codes in the English Colonies, which remained in place until the end of the Civil War.
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Last of the five remaining schools named in the 1949 petition that was the basis for Briggs v. Elliot, the court case dealing with segregated schools and "Separate But Equal" education in South Carolina. This case led directly to the landmark Supreme Court decision ordering desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education. The school is currently a state of the art meeting facility that seats 300-400 people.
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