“Counterfeit” edition of this 1860 Confederate imprint originally published in Charleston, South Carolina by “Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention” which famously prints the... Read More
A vocal proponent of black expatriation, Georgia-born Carlyle Mckinley (1847-1904) was a Confederate soldier, journalist, essayist, poet, and associate editor of the Charleston New &... Read More
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Evelyn Wright (1872–1906) School founder, educator. A native of Georgia, she founded the Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, a school for... Read More
First edition of this collection of tales of folklore from the Carolinas. Congaree Sketches is described by the publisher as “A collection of authentic stories... Read More
Goodspeed: “Letters from members of a civilian commission sent to take charge of slaves, crops, & civil affairs in the Sea Island region after its... Read More
The last entry in Clark’s Travels in the Old South: “The author was a New England farmer and schoolteacher who traveled through parts of the... Read More
Study of South Carolina during immediate post-Civil War Reconstruction, 1865–1868, and later under its new State Constitution—a period of radical Reconstruction that ended in 1877... Read More
![[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]. Fredk., Everhd. Delius, Frederick and Everhard Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
Signed 18th century circular letter and price list from Frederick and Everhard Delius, merchants of Bremen. The firm imported food goods and other commodities from... Read More
![Aimar’s Neurotic Oil, for Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Painful Swellings, Sprains, &c. Price, 25 Cents [broadside caption title]. Wineman & Co. Goodrich, G W. Aimar.](/pictures/thumb/3726330_1.jpg?v=1534362354)
Patent medicine advertising broadside for South Carolinian G.W. Aimar’s “Neurotic Oil” for neuralgia and rheumatism and for treating swellings and sprains. Also promoted here is... Read More
![Order of Exercises for the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, and the Centennial Anniversary of the Organization of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South-Carolina, Celebrated at the Hall of the South-Carolina Institute, Charleston, 27th December A. L. 5854.[i.e., 1854]. Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina.](/pictures/thumb/145347_2.jpg?v=1534362277)
Antebellum broadside outlining the order of exercises for the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina. The lyrics for two anthems and... Read More
This speech by William Andrew Wallace (1827–1896), U.S. Senator, is given a month later in the aftermath of the Hamburg Massacre or Hamburg Riot. On... Read More
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister... Read More
A reprint of the 1872 work by the same name. This edition notable for an over twenty-page Introduction by the noted American scholar and historian... Read More
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s... Read More
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South... Read More
![[Freedmen and the Port Royal Experiment:] Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia ... to Take into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the South. Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association.](/pictures/thumb/3728057_1.jpg?v=1543363497)
Report issued by Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association concerning the former slaves of coastal South Carolina liberated by Union army forces and the flight of their... Read More
Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution reprints an epistolary debate between two Baptist clergymen conducted in 1844–1845 in a Boston newspaper, the Christian Reflector... Read More
The rice industry in antebellum South Carolina, seen through the papers of rice lands owner and slaveholder Robert Francis Withers Allston. Allston “cultivated thousands of... Read More
South Carolina Representative Albert Smalls (1839–1915) faced brutal opposition during the election year of 1876. On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg)... Read More
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
Fourth of July address delivered in the immediate aftermath of the Nullification Crisis by Thomas S. Grimké, South Carolina lawyer, education reformer, and peace advocate... Read More
Presentation copy from the author, South Carolina native William Pickens: “To my friend — Mrs. Lydia M. Phillips of Phila., Pa. — With Compliments of... Read More
On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg) South Carolina, all-black members of a local militia were harassed by angry planters trying to... Read More
