Lowcountry Africana

Meet the people of Gullah, a culture with a language of its own, grown out of the isolation of the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina. For m...

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In spite of adversity and limited opportunities, African Americans have played a significant role in U.S. military history over the past ...

Learn the ins-and-outs of crafting a solid search at Ancestry.com as family historian and Search Product Manager, Ancestry Anne, will tell you how ...

Join Ancestry.com Weekly Discovery editor, Juliana Smith, for a quick refresher course — or introduction! — on using World War II draft registratio...

I presented a brief talk on the importance of remembering, commemorating and celebrating the tradition of black family gatherings. The theme of the...

Between the years 1776-1783, the British offered freedom to Blacks joining their cause. 1000's would join, forming the nucleus of the Black Loyalis...

National Day of Listening partner, Lowcountry Africana, captured Joseph McGill's impressions about the National Day of Listening in this interview....

Robin Foster of Saving Stories and Over Troubled Water discusses Story Corps' National Day of Listening.

Researching the 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia Militia for Peter Martin

Introducing a Five-Part Series focusing on the large body of records reflecting the history of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes. The seri...

A brief introduction outlining the Historic Black Civilization in Canada

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A land struggle has broken out among a small community on a unique island off the coast of Georgia.

Deacon Garfield Smalls talks about the Praise House on St. Helena Island, SC.

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Looking for Angola project - archaeologists are searching for the remains of a maroon community of former enslaved Africans and Seminole Indians al...

The WPA Guide and Eatonville, Fla. How one famous writer angered then saved her community.

The Gullah region of South Carolina comes north to John Hay HS School of Science and Medicine to teach the art of sweetgrass basket weaving.

Basket maker Vera Manigault talks about the history and culture of Sweetgrass baskets.

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The food was as varied as the music and entertainment during the famous Georgia Sea Islands Festival on Saint Simons Island this past weekend. The ...

More truth from DJ Tucker!

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In an authentic setting of the Magnolia Plantation, SC, DJ Tucker educates us on Slavery in "The New World". He enlightens facts that are seldom t...

This eight-minute video is a tribute to the life and works of self-taught painter and artist Alvin Outlaw, 63, of Outlaws Originals & Als Barbersho...

The St. Paul AME Campground is located in Harleyville, SC.

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Sally Ann Robinson grew up on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for its West African-influenced Gullah culture. Sh...

The old slave quarters of the Aiken family reveal many stories of slave life and culture in Charleston in the 19th century. Ironworking and the ab...

Sol Legare Seashore Farmers' Lodge 767 restoration initiative is an ongoing project with the final goal being to commemorate an integral piece of A...

By Eric Frazier

Joseph McGill, a program officer at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is sleeping in former slave cabins to call atten...

What can you learn from a census record? Watch our video to find out how to read a 1930 U.S. Census record and learn how this record can help you d...