By Tom Bouthillet For 30,000 years, humans wore linen made from flax. Then, in the late 1700s, everything changed. As Europe abandoned ancient linen for revolutionary cotton, William Elliott planted
The Crying River is an excerpt from the book of poems, One Voice of a People, by Stephen Q. Gray
A large part of my conversation with Luana focuses on a concept called heirs property, a form of land ownership that occurs when someone dies without a will, leaving heirs without a clear title to the property. Without definitive proof of land ownership, heirs property owners can’t get home improvement loans, farm loans, and certain kinds of insurance, among a host of other things.
Plantations visually, tend to be strikingly beautiful places that also embody and represent violence, pain and suffering.
By Luana M. Graves Sellars Enslaved women on a rice barge in Georgetown, SC Any story that tells of the rich history of the Lowcountry must include the Gullah Geechee
Georgetown County is full of an incredibly rich Gullah Geechee history and cultural attractions that I was very excited about exploring to fill in the gaps to my story.
