Charleston, S.C., is a vibrant small city with a long and complex history. That history cannot be appreciated without understanding the influence over the centuries of persons of African descent.
Some of that history is painful, including Charleston’s role for decades as a place where captured Africans stepped onto America and into lives as slaves, reported Interracial Conversations steering committee member Judy Thomson.
Yet enslaved persons who remained in the city literally built much of it and contributed significantly to it. African-American and Gullah-Geechee culture greatly influenced the Low Country region. Numerous famous and not-so-famous Black artists, musicians, government leaders, writers and social justice workers came from Charleston.
From August 24 to August 27, 35 persons from Interracial Conversations of the Northern Neck visited Charleston and learned more about….
