THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON, FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF THE SLAVE MART, TO THE PLANTATIONS THAT SURROUND THE BUSTLING DOWNTOWN. BUT MANY OF THE PLANTATIONS HAVE ...

Despite the crop’s ubiquity in colonial times, the Otranto Plantation Indigo Vat, in Berkeley County, South Carolina, is one of the only tangible sites left behind. A historical marker ...

Homanit, Mega Metal, and Alpha Sheet Metal Works will expand operations in Clarendon, Fairfield, and Charleston counties, ...

Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice and indigo plantations, and by the early 18th century slaves made up a majority of South Carolina's population.