Coastal Heritage Magazine Trailblazers of the Reconstruction Era With a new National Park Service site planned for Beaufort County, the people who led the way during Reconstruction gain new acclaim. History Abounds. A marker was erected in 1994 at the Georgetown home...
Coastal Heritage Magazine Carolina’s Gold Coast: The Culture of Rice and Slavery Rice plantations shaped and reshaped the lowcountry geography and economy, making Charleston one of the richest cities in the world, but it was a wealth built primarily on slave labor....
Coastal Heritage Magazine Emancipation Day: The Freed People of Port Royal On Emancipation Day—January 1, 1863—sea islanders of the Beaufort District realized what they must do to help defeat the Confederacy and keep their freedom. Freedom. This illustration shows the...
Coastal Heritage Magazine Carolina Diarist: The Broken World of Mary Chesnut Her compelling journal describes the four-year Confederate rebellion, which aimed to preserve slavery but led to its extinction in North America. Perspective. Photographed with her husband,...
Coastal Heritage Magazine The Lowcountry’s Jazz Age: Gift of Story and Song In the 1920s and ‘30s, southern white authors published best-selling novels about the Gullah people. Now the Gullah people are telling their own story. On the Cover. Sometime during the 1930s,...