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The General Government never resorted to forced loans. The first act of South Carolina was to enforce an excessive one. Secession was to be an era in commercial freedom. All the world was to pay ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first ... that started the Civil War and hangs a marble copy of the Articles of ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and South Carolina in 1710. Largely agricultural, settlers relied heavily on the slave trade to work rice ...