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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.
On April 5, 1839, Robert Smalls, Civil War hero, businessman, and political figure, was born in Beaufort, South Carolina. He …
Continue ReadingIn 1870, Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment, which prohibited the denial of the right to vote based on “race, color, …
Continue ReadingFebruary 1, 1870 Jonathan Jasper Wright was born in Pennsylvania on February 11, 1840. The son of a runaway slave, he …
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