by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
The AME denomination experienced rapid growth after the Civil War and Queen Chapel was among the early churches founded. In 1865, Charleston born AME Bishop D.A. Payne returned to S.C. and brought a group of missionaries to Hilton Head Island. They met with Rev. James...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
First Providence Baptist Church was established by enslaved and free people of African descent in the town of Hamburg. After the Civil War, Hamburg became a center of African American political power in Aiken County. In 1868 three members of the First Providence...
by greenbook_admin | May 16, 2024
Penn School was founded in 1862 by northern missionaries and abolitionists who came to South Carolina after the capture of the Sea Islands by Union troops. The site and its collection of historic buildings were venues for education, the preservation and...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
This house (c. 1890) was the home of Jonathan Alexander Baxter (1854-1927) a free-born son of a Charleston shoemaker and his wife. His family moved to Georgetown when Jonathan was an infant. He was educated in the public schools and became a teacher. In the 1870s...
by greenbook_admin | May 15, 2024
In 1869, this became the home of Alonzo J. Ransier who served in the SC legislature 1868-1870, as SC lieutenant governor, 1872, and in Congress, 1873-1875. Born a free African American in Charleston in 1834, he criticized political corruption while he was a...
