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News for the Carolinas
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Friday, May 17, 2013
The commission working to preserve the culture of slave descendants on the Southeast coast is holding its quarterly meeting. The Gullah-Geechee Heritage Corridor Commission meets in Conway Friday.
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Saturday, February 09, 2013
More suspects have been charged in connection with what federal prosecutors say was a sex trafficking ring that forced women into prostitution and traded them like slaves between cities in Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas.
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Saturday, March 03, 2012
A plan to preserve the sea island culture of slave descendants along the Southeast coast is nearing completion after years of work.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The NAACP's top officer is calling on South Carolina's first governor of color to bring down the Confederate flag that flies a stone's throw from her Statehouse office, calling the governor a "contradiction" for her lack of effort in bringing down the flag.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
The Civil War commemorations planned for the next several years have revived an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy.
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Thursday, May 05, 2011
The ruins of two slave cabins on the South Carolina coast have been saved after crews removed trees whose roots cracked the structures thought to be 200 years old.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Cannons fired around Charleston Harbor in South Carolina before dawn Tuesday, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
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Monday, February 07, 2011
In the city where the Civil War began, pastors from both black and white churches gather this week to discuss the concept of Christian slavery.
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Saturday, October 09, 2010
A memorial was dedicated on the South Carolina coast at one of the nation's oldest black cemeteries. The memorial wrought iron arch now stands at the entrance to a black graveyard at Drayton Hall outside of Charleston. At least 40 people are buried in the cemetery that is still in use and dates to the 1700s.
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
A preservationist working to sustain old slave cabins is taking his effort beyond South Carolina.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
Three proposals for preserving the sea island culture of slave descendants along the Southeast coast are being considered.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
A South Carolina bail bondsman has been arrested after authorities say he forced a woman to cook and clean for him in exchange for getting her out of jail.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
The South Carolina slave cabin that historian Joe McGill slept in this weekend was unlike the others he's visited.
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Preservationist Joe McGill has been spending nights sleeping in slave cabins in South Carolina - something he says he couldn't do if he believed in ghosts and spirits.
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