Charleston County, South Carolina

In the early 1800s, open rebellions—when slaves armed themselves and rose up against their white oppressors—happened, but they were rare. In 1800, a slave named Gabriel Prosser made plans to revolt in Henrico County, Virginia. Freeman Denmark Vesey led a rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Nat Turner’s Rebellion was the biggest and bloodiest slave uprising in American history. It was also the most influential because the immediate forces it set in motion. The rebellion caused…

HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDING SURVEY Drayton Hall (3380 Ashley River Rd) HABS NO. SC-377 Location: 3380 Ashley River Rd, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina 29414 Present Owner/ Occupant: National Trust for Historic Preservation Present Use: The National Trust for Historic Preservation allows the site to be open to the public since 1977 after the house was placed in historic preservation hands Significance: “Built between 1738 and 1742, Drayton Hall is one of the finest…

end of slavery and helped escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad, a network of safe routes and safe houses. The often violent opposition between the Abolitionists and slave owners and the economic divisions between the North and South ultimately led to the Civil War in…

from leaving. They were blocked in by officers, which make them angry, resulting in retaliation, creating more violence. For the most part there was so much violence that it was impossible to point fingers at anyone. On January 9, 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina officers were deployed to break up a protest. The protest began at a nearby mall and spread downtown. More than 500 businesses were destroyed and a lot of vehicles were damaged. The riot caused the city more than $10 million in…

overcome this issue which keeps growing. In the U.S. African Americans and Hispanics are the ones who suffer the most with racisms every day. Recently there has been two events were racism is the reason of this attacks. First the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina where a white man was arrested for the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black church members. Then the speech of Donald Trump who accused Mexicans to be rapists, thieves, assassins, drug dealers and much more. Also argued…

Eileen Sullivan’s “Police Body Cameras Show More Than Just Facts” is an article written for the King County Journal is which Sullivan weighs the use of police officer body cameras against the potential threat to personal privacy. In this essay we are going to look at Sullivan's use of the three types of appeals to convince another that your argument is correct. First, Logos which appeals to the reader or listeners logic or reason. If one presents an argument that makes sense, another is most…

Injustice and struggle have been prevalent throughout the world and music has been a key factor in bringing people together to fight for a cause, such as the Civil Rights Movement and the apartheid in South Africa. From these tribulations, people gave rise to songs such as We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, to unite, to feel a sense of comfort and hope. The songs We Shall Overcome and Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika have become musical representations of triumph over the injustice within…

You don’t see many women walking, or riding in carriages nowadays unless you are in the Amish communities. Many times in today’s society carriages are used for tours of historic cities, like Charleston, South Carolina for example. When you see women walking today they are either exercising, or showing poverty. Although those are not the official reasons, they are only possibilities. Which can possibly be what women did one-hundred years ago but it was…

He would walk miles just to borrow a book. His father didn’t approve of this however. He viewed Abraham as being lazy because he’d rather read than work. In March of 1830, his father moved his family again, this time to Macon County, Illinois and then again to Coles County. At this time, Lincoln was twenty-two and decided to strike out on his own and make a living with manual labor. Over a period of years, he worked as a shopkeeper, postmaster,…

The high profile killings of black men Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina and Eric Garner in New York City have brought light to excessive force by police. In North Charleston, an unarmed Walter Scott was shot several times in the back while sprinting away from Officer Michael Slager. Mr. Scott was at least 18 feet away from Slager and was showing no signs of…