Join us at the three events supporting Dr. Otis Pickett and to learn the important insights his book provides into the religious history of our community and the meaning of emancipation.
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Dangerous Learning With Dr. Derek Black
For enslaved southerners literacy was a path to freedom. Despite harsh suppression, they defied barriers to learn. Even in Post-Civil War and Jim Crow America their struggle continued but in new ways. Derek Black tells their stories and their implications for today’s fraught educational landscape.
Black History Month Lecture with Dr. Shannon Eaves
The Department of History’s Annual Black History Month Lecture will be presented by associate professor Shannon C. Eaves, the author of Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South and the College of Charleston’s 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award Recipient, an honor bestowed upon her by the Black History Intercollegiate Consortium. This event on Feb. 19th at 5pm in the School of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Building, Room 129, is free and open to the public. Following the event, there will be a reception in the SSMB atrium.
Soil Collection Ceremony At Rivers Green Oct 21, 5 pm
The Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston is assisting the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project in an important event and we urge you to attend. Soil collected from our site at the College of Charleston Addlestone Library, where African American cemeteries were once located, will be incorporated into the African Ancestors Memorial which will later be erected at the site of the Gaillard Auditorium. Attendees will learn about these organizations and participate in laying flowers at the site. President Andrew Hsu will assist in the soil collection with a representative of the Brown Fellowship Society and C of C student Zaiid Stroman (a 1967 Legacy Scholar and the grandson of a South Carolina Civil Rights activist).
