Charleston: Communications
Charleston: Communications
Newspapers and Magazines
One major daily (morning) newspaper serves the area: The Post & Courier. Publications for the African American community are the Charleston Black Times, The Charleston Chronicle and Charleston Trident Black Pages. The Charleston City Paper and the Charleston Jewish News are other local papers. Magazines published in Charleston include Commerce Magazine, Good Dog!, South Carolina History Magazine, and Charleston Magazine.
Television and Radio
The four television stations broadcasting from Charleston are network affiliates; additional television viewing is available through cable service. The city's seven radio stations broadcast educational, sports, religious, public, and special interest programming in addition to music ranging from popular and country-western to jazz and classical.
Media Information: The Post & Courier, Evening Post Publishing Company, 134 Columbus Street, Charleston, SC 29403; telephone (843)577-7111
Charleston Online
Charleston: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. Available www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/charleston
Charleston Area Convention Center Complex. Available www.charlestonconvention.com
Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority. Available www.ridecarta.com
Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau. Available www.charlestoncvb.com
Charleston County Library. Available www.ccpl.org
Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce. Available www.charlestonchamber.net
Charleston Regional Development Alliance. Available www.charleston-for-business.com
City of Charleston home page. Available www.ci.charleston.sc.us
The Post & Courier. Available www.charleston.net
Selected Bibliography
Beardsley, John, ed., Roberta Kefalos et al., Art and Landscape in Charleston and the Low Country: A Project of Spoleto Festival USA (Washington, D.C.: James G. Trulove, 1998)
Jakes, John, Charleston: A Novel (New York: Signet Books, 2003)
Straight, Susan, I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (New York: Hyperion, 1992)
Vlach, John Michael, Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip Simmons (Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1992)
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Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...premise that as a "Slave Society" the domination of slaves "was always the...their disposal, slave masters had to contend with slaves who were not the...Unfortunately, the slaves' cultural participation in colonial slave society was fraught...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...households with multiple slaves increasingly owned entire slave families. Unlike...frequently characterized slave systems elsewhere. Nevertheless, slaves resisted. But...with black male slaves, and in which every one of seventy slave seamen captured...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...supported more than 6000 slaves, it developed one of the more unusual slave societies in the history...marriages, often named slave children for themselves...usually bequeathed slaves to relatives, avoided breaking up slave families, sometimes...
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Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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SLAVES TO CITY'S FORTUNES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 8/18/2004; 700+ words
; ...is descended from slaves. He is the great-grandson of a slave from Barbados. Today...trafficking. City slave traders often owned...and America where slaves worked. Many of...and chains to keep slaves shackled surrounded...Businesses making rope for slave ships and machinery...
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Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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Slaves Helped Build White House
News Wire article from: AP Online; 7/31/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Clyburn, D-S.C. Slaves were the largest locally...be carved out of two slave-owning states, Virginia...more than 60 years. Slaves worked as domestic servants...city became a thriving slave-trading center, and...voiced shock at witnessing slaves being led past the Capitol...
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Slaves to History
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 2/20/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...In close detail, Slave Ship chronicles not...horrific lot of the slaves, but also their...capitalism. It's the slave ship as factory...and into the slaves upon whose unpaid...the importation of slaves continued unchecked...become the hemispheric slave-based empire of...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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SLAVES' GRAVES THOUGHT TO BE ON FARM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/4/2001; 700+ words
; ...indication of how the slaves lived. According...of sale, a young slave named Bate was sold...assumed to be the slave plot. John A. Maybee...the two or three slaves kept by his 18th...a safe harbor for slaves escaping to Canada...about New York's slave history, but it...
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Selling slave families down the river: property rights and the public auction.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...important consideration of slave ownership because slaves represented a highly valuable...labor systems. For the slave owner, slaves represent not only labor...labor is that managers of slave labor must prevent slaves from running away. Managers...
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Slave Trade
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...there were as many slaves as there were Roman citizens. The slave trade was also a...destination for the slave trade was the Muslim world, with slaves coming from Africa...major source of slaves, and the international slave trade was dominated...
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Fugitive Slave Acts (1793, 1850)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...Others resented the ability of slave owners to reclaim slaves who might have escaped many...right to reclaim fugitive slaves. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 The Fugitive...owners to retake fugitive slaves. Slave owners could either seize...
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Prohibition of the Slave Trade (1807)
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...importation of foreign slaves and Congress had restricted slave importation to the...hinder domestic sales of slaves between slave states, nor was enforcement...officers, and owners of slave ships. Estimates of the number of slaves imported illegally...
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Slave Insurrections
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...down unrest among slaves and to picture insurrections...mythology of the "happy slave" reflected a continuing...impressive. The first slave revolt in territory...Carolina. Several slaves rebelled and fled...having recaptured the slaves. Insurrection in...Carolina. In 1712 a slave ...
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Slave Mode of Production
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...formation in which the slave mode of production...citizens rather than slaves constituted the productive...agrees that non-slave producers accounted...was slavery because slaves provided the surplus...of war-supplied slaves trailed off. The...consequence was increased slave-breeding ...
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