This indicator was written to promote inquiry into the unique development of ethnic, political, and religious identities in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies.

Grade(s): 4

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Title:
Learning About Gullah Culture
Learning About Gullah Culture

Lesson

Grades: 4

During this lesson, students will explore and learn from different resources regarding Gullah culture to support their comprehension of the African experience in South Carolina during the colonial...

 Anita Singleton-Prather | Women Vision SC
Anita Singleton-Prather | Women Vision SC

Video

Grades: 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Anita Singleton-Prather grew up thinking she would study law and become a civil rights attorney. Instead she became a master storyteller, author and educator. Her work has influenced civil rights and...
 The French Huguenot Exodus | Hanover House 1
The French Huguenot Exodus | Hanover House
Episode 1

Video

Grades: 3 4 8

The beginning is about the house’s original owner, Paul de St. Julien’s family, and their French Huguenot origins. They moved to Charleston, S.C. to escape religious and political persecution, when...
 African American Contributions | Hanover House 3
African American Contributions | Hanover House
Episode 3

Video

Grades: 3 4 8

William Hiott and Patrick McMillan discuss the contributions made by African Americans. When Paul de St. Julien died in 1741, he owned forty-five slaves. Most of the profit which came from St. Julien...
 Between The Waters, Part 2
Between The Waters, Part 2

Video

Grades: 3 4 5

In the 16th century, Spanish and English settlers came to colonize Hobcaw Barony. This was a dark time for the Waccamaw people, for Spaniards colonized Waccamaw land without regard for the natives...
 Between The Waters, Part 3
Between The Waters, Part 3

Video

Grades: 3 4 5

In the 18th and 19th centuries, rice was the most produced crop in the United States, and provided the most wealth. Historian Daniel Littlefield, and botanist Richard Porcher, discuss rice’s African...
Gullah Glossary | GullahNet
Gullah Glossary | GullahNet

Document

Grades: 4 8

benne wafer (ben.ne wa.fer) n. - a cookie made with sesame seeds and eaten for good luck; introduced by slaves from West Africa. / cast (cast) v. - to throw or fling. chaff (chaff) n. - lightweight...
Man Playing the Fiddle | History Of SC Slide Collection
Man Playing the Fiddle | History Of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

An unknown man, Charleston County, playing the fiddle, around 1900. By rights this photograph should be of a banjo, whose origins are indisputably African. As early as the late 17th century, records...
 Carolina Indians  | Palmetto Special
Carolina Indians | Palmetto Special

Video

Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

The lesson consists of the host and three students visiting Keowee-Toxaway State Park in Pickens County. The story of the Cherokee is told there through drawings and artifacts in a series of display...
Landrum Blockhouse | History of SC Slide Collection
Landrum Blockhouse | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 20

Photo

Grades: 4 8

Landrum Blockhouse on the South Carolina and North Carolina line, near Tryon, North Carolina. This was one of a series of blockhouses built for protection against the Native Americans. A WPA photo...
Bill of Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection
Bill of Exchange | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 3

Photo

Grades: 4 8

The availability of "real" money, in the form of coins made of gold and silver, was a constant problem in all of the English colonies. Their need to purchase manufactured goods from Europe meant that...
Fort San Filipe | History of SC Slide Collection
Fort San Filipe | History of SC Slide Collection
Episode 5

Photo

Grades: 4

The Spanish made two attempts to settle a permanent community in South Carolina. The first in 1526, led by a wealthy lawyer from Santo Domingo, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon, failed in less than a year. The...
 Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 6 6
Lemmon Hill Plantation, Part 6
Episode 6

Video

Grades: 3 4 5

Project Discovery visits a restored plantation from the 1790s, built in Winnsboro, in Fairfield County.