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Black History Resources: Slavery and Emancipation

Check out the SC State Library's collection of works on Slavery and Emancipation in South Carolina

Cover image: Down by the riverside : a South Carolina slave community

Down by the riverside: a South Carolina slave community

Cover image: Coming through: voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories

Coming through: voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories

Cover image: Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves

Before freedom, when I just can remember : twenty-seven oral histories of former South Carolina slaves

Cover image: I belong to South Carolina : South Carolina slave narratives

I belong to South Carolina : South Carolina slave narratives

Cover image: Fifty years in chains or, The life of an American slave

Fifty years in chains or, The life of an American slave

Cover image: Seed from Madagascar

Seed from Madagascar

Cover image: Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

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Resources on Slavery and Emancipation

First Person Accounts of Slavery