Our commitment to teaching extends far beyond your time with us. If you were one of the thousands of guests we've inspired to delve deeper into the roots of our nation or reconsider the history taught in schools, you might find enjoyment in exploring these additional resources.
It's a long read (about 500 pages) but it serves as a pretty good, although not perfect, look at the history of Charleston through the modern day. Click Here for Amazon
A deep dive into the differences between Urban Slavery and Rural Slavery. He distills the tax documents and the census documents of the era and gives you both the numbers and the context. Click Here for Amazon
An eye-opening look at the white slave trade in the colonies. From 1600 to the 1880s England sold kidnapped men, women, and children as slaves, and the colonies bought them. Click Here for Amazon
Allan Gallay documents in vivid detail how the trade operated, the processes by which Europeans and Native Americans became participants, and the profound consequences for the South and its peoples. Click Here for Amazon
If you know Charleston history, you know they had a tea party. Well, they had a meeting actually. 13 days before Boston, Charleston tried to flex its muscle in the tea rebellion. But they ended up with egg on their face. Click Here for Amazon
This one easily made our reading list.Take a building-by-building look at the architecture that built Charleston. If you want to learn about the Charleston buildings, this is the book for you. Click Here for Amazon
Facing death rather than enslavement―a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero by stealing a ship named The Planter from the southern warf in Charleston Harbor. Click Here for Amazon
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Click here for Amazon
On July 3, 1858, a luxury yacht named the Wanderer traveling under the New York Yacht Club flag stopped in Charleston, on a secret journey: To sail across the ocean from New York, load a cargo of over 480 slaves from the African coast, and bring them back to America. The Wanderer’s journey—taken fifty years after the African slave trade was made illegal—was the last documented shipment of African captives to American soil, but not the only slave ship to sail from New York. Click here for Amazon
Professor Nick Buttler is the city of Charleston's official historian. He's also a really nice guy. Nick has hosted the Charleston Time Machine Podcast for several years. If you want to learn about Charleston. Nick's Podcast is one-stop shopping for all things Charleston history. Click Here to Listen
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the African slave trade. The site does a good job of presenting an overview of the world import numbers, distribution, and timelines. However, to derive those numbers the site uses a fair amount of algorithmic assumptions. These algorithmic results at times appear conflicting with other data on the site. As with all publicly available sources, including books, it should be used as a single data point to develop an overall understanding a very broad issue. Slave Voyages Website
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