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Folklore & Dormroom Décor | Digital Traditions

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Folklore & Dormroom Décor | Digital Traditions

by Beth Hinson. Hinson is an International Studies student in the South Carolina Honors College at USC. This paper was written for the Fall 2007 class "Folklife in America." I have decided to address...

Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Booker T. Washington High School | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

Booker T. Washington High School, Class of 1933, seated on the lawn in front of the main entrance to the school. Founded in 1916, the school was, until its closing in 1974, the hub of the separate...

First Graded School in St. Matthews | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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First Graded School in St. Matthews | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

Episode 5

The first graded school in St. Matthews, photographed around 1910. A campaign to improve rural schools in the late 19th century replaced many one-room schools, in which all students were taught by a...

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Child Labor in the Carolinas

Employers need employees or workers. During the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, many new jobs were created. Many of the workers who filled these new jobs were children. The problem...

The Avery Institute in Charleston | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Avery Institute in Charleston | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

Episode 4

The Avery Institute in Charleston. The Avery Normal Institute was established by the American Missionary Association in the spring of 1865, and initially named after the New York abolitionist Lewis...

Original Building of the Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

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Original Building of the Penn School | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 3

The original building of the Penn School photographed around 1890. The Penn School, located on St. Helena's Island, was the first school for freed African-Americans opened by northerners in the South...

The Camden Male Academy | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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The Camden Male Academy | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

Episode 2

The Camden Male Academy was conducted as a semi-military academy, training young men in martial skills by Charles H. Peek in Camden from 1859 until his death in 1863. Many of the cadets, shown here in...

Plantation "Streets" Of The "Negro Quarters" | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

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Plantation "Streets" Of The "Negro Quarters" | History Of South Carolina Slide Collection

Episode 16

During slavery, although plantation owners attempted to control the lives and activities of their slave labor, a vital community based on African traditions of family and kin networks aided African...

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Critter Barn | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 15

The Works Progress Administration photographer who recorded this structure in the 1930s called it a "Critter Barn." Its design and execution clearly mark the African building influence upon it, even a...

Granny Midwives in Penn School | History Of SC Slide Collection

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Granny Midwives in Penn School | History Of SC Slide Collection

Episode 14

African herbal medicine traditions remained an important part of health care practices in the slave communities. Even after the war, when the Freedman's Bureau and northern educators tried to teach...

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