Aiken County’s history can be found in many places, and these historic sites tell of the Winter Colony, the equine influence ...

EDGEFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (WJBF) – The City of Edgefield is renovating its historic hotel, and a kickoff was held at Courthouse Square on Thursday to celebrate. The landmark facility is being transformed ...

Rep. Jim Clyburn’s book, The First Eight, tells of the first eight SC African-American congressmen and how they were forced ...

A group of Buddhist monks spent their second day in South Carolina on Wednesday, walking from McCormick to Edgefield.

The Weeping Time refers to one of the largest single sales of enslaved people in U.S. History. The land where the auction took place became available for purchase in August ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park in the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House formally apologized Wednesday "for the injustice, cruelty and brutality of slavery," becoming the latest state to offer its regret. The House passed the ...

Digging a stadium-sized scoop out of one of the oldest sections of a city brimming with history is bound to unearth fragments of the past. In Shockoe Bottom, those fragments are likely to have a ...