SLAVE PLANTATION BOOKS

[boitumelo]

BLACK HISTORY IN SOUTH CAROLINA I SAW ON TV....FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA HAS ANCESTORS ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA SLAVE PLANTATIONS....A GROUP OF BLACK WOMEN MADE A QUILT WITH IMAGE OF THE FIRST LADY IT WAS ON DSPLAY AT THE MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON DC....THEY HAVE THE SLAVE PLANTATION MUSEUM IN SOUTH CAROLINA, I THINK ,CHARLESTON,SOUTH CAROLINA..THE SWEETWATER WOMEN MAKE WEAVE BASKET LIKE THE WOMEN DO IN AFRICA...GULLAH - GEECHIE IS THE LANGUAGE OR ACCENT OF A LOT BLACK FOLKS IN SOUTH CAROLINA....FREED SLAVES BUILT THE BETHEL AME CHURCH,IT STILL STANDS. SOME OF THE HISTORIC THINGS TO SEE IN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH....

[Troy]

I visited the Charleston a couple months ago and checked out the Slave Market and the AME church -- doing these things is not just from Black History Month anymore.