101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina

By: Walter Edgar

Book Overview

The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670. For more than 350 years South Carolina's African American population has had a significant influence on the state's cultural, economic, and political development.

101 African...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643361392
• ISBN13: 9781643361390
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"