CHARLESTON, SOAKING IN ITS BEAUTY AND HOSPITALITY, IT’S EASY TO FORGET THE DARKER CHAPTERS THAT UNFOLDED HERE. THE STORY OF THE ENSLAVED IN CHARLESTON FROM THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO THE AUCTION BLOCK OF ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — "Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens. Guided by historians and artists from the Slave Dwelling Project, the ...

EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) – As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, while beautiful, holds a complex and painful legacy. It's one thing to hear the history. However, to personally explore and experience how ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Stephen Schmutz, a Charleston attorney, left, and Dr. Bernard Powers Jr., founding executive ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Magnolia Plantation & Gardens has been used for 345 years, and in that time, has seen beauty, robust farming and wealth. It has also seen the transition from the horror of slavery ...

Some of Charleston’s most revealing stories live outside its most visited attractions. It lingers in overlooked neighborhoods, backstreets and structures once central to resistance and everyday life.

From the closure of national parks to furloughs on Parris Island, people visiting the Lowcountry will see changes because of ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina — Sitting at her bedroom desk, nursing a cup of coffee on a quiet Tuesday morning, Lauren Davila scoured digitized old newspapers for slave auction ads. A graduate history ...