Slave TradeThe Atlantic slave trade was one of the most important demographic, social, and economic events of the modern era. It…
SlaveryAfricans were imported in significant numbers from about the 1690s, and by 1715 the black population made up about sixty percent of the colony’s total population. This marked another distinctive feature of South Carolina, for it was the only colony in English North America where this proportion existed.
SmallpoxAn acute, highly contagious viral disease, smallpox was a major threat in South Carolina from the late seventeenth century until…
Smalls, RobertSmalls’s war-time accomplishments made him a political force in the Sea Islands, with its overwhelmingly black population. In 1867 Smalls was one of the founders of the Republican Party in South Carolina, an organization to which he remained loyal all his life.
Smith, Alice Ravenel HugerArtist. Smith was born in Charleston on July 14, 1876, the daughter of Daniel Elliott Huger Smith and Caroline Ravenel.…
Smith, ArthurMusician. Thanks to the widespread popularity of his instrumental hit “Guitar Boogie,” Arthur Smith became one of the better-known guitarists…
Smith, BenjaminMerchant, politician, planter. Smith was born in South Carolina in 1717, the eldest child of the planter and politician Thomas…
Smith, Charles AureliusBanker, governor. Smith was born in North Carolina on January 22, 1861, the son of Joseph Smith. After attending local…
Smith, Ellison DurantU.S. senator. Smith was born in Sumter District (later Lee County) on August 1, 1864, one of ten children born…
Smith, Gregory WhiteWriter, publisher, and Pulitzer Prize winner. Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1951, to William R. Smith, a hotel administrator,…
Smith, Nell WhitleyLegislator, educator, businesswoman. Smith, the daughter of Arthur Hugh Smith and Alice Beryl Whitley, was born in Washington, North Carolina,…
Smith, ThomasGovernor. Born in England around 1648, Smith immigrated with his family to Carolina in 1683, likely as a member of…
Smith, WilliamU.S. senator. Born near the North Carolina border, Smith spent most of his life in York District. After studying with…
Smith, William LoughtonLawyer, congressman, diplomat. Smith was born on October 2, 1758, the son of the prominent merchant Benjamin Smith and Anne…
Smyth, Ellison AdgerIndustrialist. Smyth was born on October 26, 1847, in Charleston, the son of the Reverend Thomas Smyth and Margaret M.…
Smyth, ThomasClergyman, author. Smyth was born on June 14, 1808, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of Samuel Smyth, a merchant, and…
Snow's Island(Florence County). Snow’s Island, in the southeast corner of Florence County, was the legendary campsite of the Revolutionary War general…
Snowden, Mary AmarinthiaPhilanthropist. Snowden was born in Charleston on September 10, 1819, the daughter of Joseph Yates and Elizabeth Saylor. Her father,…
Society for the Preservation of SpiritualsThe city of Charleston was incorporated in 1783 with the motto “Aedes Mors Juraque Curat” (She guards her buildings, customs,…
SoilsSoils are the products of natural processes occurring on or near Earth’s surface. Water accumulation and movement, oxygen levels, plant…
