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Hastings Gantt
A formerly enslaved man turned businessman and landowner from Beaufort, South Carolina. Known for selling a part of his land that became the home of…
Horace Page & Page Act of 1875
A White, California Congressman who was responsible for the Page Act of 1875, which prevented the immigration of Chinese women to the United…
Juneteenth
Commemorates the day Union Army General Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 - decreeing enslaved people free - to the citizens of…
Laura Towne
A White, Pennsylvania-born abolitionist, missionary, educator, and physician who helped cofound the Penn School (one of the first for the formerly…
Martin Delany
Born of a free mother in Charles Town, West Virginia, raised in Pennsylvannia, opened a medical practice, became an abolitionist, Africa…
Mitchelville
One of the first self-governing communities of formerly enslaved people, located on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Penn School
One of the country's first schools for formerly enslaved people, established on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina in 1862 by…
President Andrew Johnson's Impeachment & the End of His Presidency
Highlights from Johnson's impeachment trial and events that led up to the end of his presidency.
President Andrew Johnson's Transition (c. April 1865)
Highlights of events that took place after President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial and acquittal.
Prince Rivers
A formerly enslaved Beaufort, South Carolina man who escaped, became a Union Army Sergeant in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers during the Civil…
Red Cloud & Red Cloud's War
An Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, leader of Red Cloud's War, and the only Native American to win a war against the United States.
Richard H. Cain
A free born Virginia man who became an abolitionist, pastor/missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church, entrepreneur and U.S. Congressman…
Robert B. Elliott
A British born Black man who moved to South Carolina, became an attorney, co-created a Black law firm and was elected U.S. Congressman (R-SC) during…
Robert C. DeLarge
Born into a family of mixed-race elites. Former Confederate navy employee turned Republican Congressman (R-SC) from Aiken, South Carolina.
Robert Smalls
A formerly enslaved South Carolina man, Union Army officer, Congressman (R-SC) and businessman. Known for commandeering a Confederate gunboat during…
Samuel Lee
A formerly enslaved Abbeville, South Carolina man who later became a farmer, attorney and the first Black Speaker of the South Carolina House of…