Edgefield, South Carolina

On December 20, 1860, just a little over a month after the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina seceded the union. Becoming the first state ever to do so, and this action set the example for similar results to happen in fellow slave holding states; throughout the beginning of 1861. Although South Carolina had come very close to secession before, first during the nullification crisis of 1832, and again at the State Convention of 1852, it would ultimately come to a breaking point after the of

England. The initial efforts failed miserably and some of the original proprietors gave up. Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the proprietors, was persistent on trying to make their system work. Cooper convinced his partners to finance a migration to Carolina from England (Brinkley 49). The first expedition had 300 people on board with only 100 surviving the difficult voyage. After ten years of settling, the people founded a city at the cross between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, which in 1690 became

In Mothers of Invention, Drew Gilpin Faust has written a wonderful history of the “Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War”. This informative study allows the reader to get a look into the life of privileged white women of the south. Faust uses diaries, political documents, newspapers and personal letters, to give the reader to experience things through the eyes and in the words of the women themselves. Faust presents a number of southern women whose lives were changed by the societal

amuck. Without mentioning the “Black Lives Matter” movement, a heated debated spark the attention of the whole nation. This debate was none other than the differing of opinions of the rebel flag. The racist hate crime massacre in a Charleston, South Carolina AME church by a WHITE male tipped the old debate over the meaning of the Confederate (Rebel) flag. Becoming the hot topic for newspapers, news stations, talk shows, social media, and conversations between friends, people had to draw a delicate

"A National Transportation Safety Board investigation into the crash, released 11 months later, lays most of the blame for the collision on a local Norfolk Southern crew who were working the line west of Aiken a day earlier. The crew of Train P22 told investigators they were running behind when they reached the Avondale Mills textile plant around 6:10 p.m. the evening of January 5. That did not give them enough time to drop off the cargo of sodium hydroxide (used as a bleaching agent at the Avondale

The day before Thanksgiving, I went to go visit Medical University of South Carolina Emergency Room. A place that I know all too well. The Medical University of South Carolina Adult emergency Room is located on 96 Jonathan Lucas Street located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The Medical University of South Carolina, better known as MUSC has been around 1824. It has been serving the town of Charleston and its’ citizen with amazing services and new techniques to treat diseases. “It has expanded

The beaches of South Carolina are a prized quality and possession to the state and its people as it provides beauty, enjoyment and the economic benefits of tourism year round. Due to storms, natural processes of sand movement and development, the beaches of South Carolina, specifically the Grand Strand beaches and local beaches of Sullivan’s Island and Folly Beach, are eroding at a rapid rate. Erosion is a natural process effected by sea level rise, storms and currents and many techniques have been

New York school system especially because of the schools I’d have to go to due to where we lived. They always felt that it just wasn’t the place for a child, so they decided to move me and my older sister to South Carolina with my grandparents. It worked out well; I went to school in the south and spent any other time in New York with my parents. When I first started school, pre-k to be exact, I noticed that other children would treat me differently than their other peers. I remember one specific

Albert Einstein once said, “Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” The summer of 2016, I moved here from Southeastern Wisconsin. Focusing on being positive was rough. Leaving friends and family felt like the end of the world for me. I have always thought moving here was a mistake, that I could do something about it. I have learned that I cannot do anything about it, so I might as well take Einstein’s advice and keep moving forward. I made a goal on the

According to CrimeResearch.org 98.4% of mass public shootings from 1950 to July 2016 of shootings are in gun-free zones and 96.2% of all shootings from January 1998 to December 2015 are in gun-free zones. Remembering the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina back in 2015 where Dylann Roof killed 9 and injured 1, Roof went to a place where there were no security guards and hopefully no