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The whole coast of South Carolina was built on stealing from poor black people. It’s legalized stealing.
Charleston-based attorney Thomas Goldstein talks about Heirs Property and why it cost African Americans millions of acres.
BBC News - Civil War battles re-enacted in Southern US states
The commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the US Civil War is triggering many re-enactments across America’s Southern states. We spoke to organisers and reenactors in Charleston about their motivation, if they mind playing Union forces every now and then, and if they think the war was portrayed accurately by the history books.
Fred Lincoln talks about cherished property that his ancestors received shortly after slavery.
Watch the full story at: http://bbc.in/fyXd6U
BBC News - Charleston commemorates the Civil War
A shot fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 150 years ago plunged the United States into civil war but today there is still disagreement over what led the 11 Southern states to secede from the Union and spark the deadly battles which followed. We went to Charleston to find out how a city that was the center of the conflict commemorates an event like this.
I think the South is a region that demonstrates… the truth of William Faulkner’s statement: The past is not dead. It’s not even over.
BBC News - Why I fly the Confederate flag
In Summerville, South Carolina, Annie Chambers Caddell sparked outrage and protests when she decided to hang a Confederate flag from her porch in the historically African-American neighbourhood of Brownsville.
She talks to the BBC about the reasons for putting up the flag, and what she thinks about the wooden walls that a local organisation has erected around her house, limiting the view of the flag to both sides.
We caught up with Civil War re-enactors in Charleston, SC, who want to portray ‘their side’ of history.
The full story coming soon to http://bbc.com/news
BBC News - 'US not come to terms with racial history'
Historian Bernard Powers talks about the history of slavery and why it triggered the secession of southern states. Powers says the US has still not come to terms with its racial history and suffers because of it.
When you come to this graveyard you get a sense that this is a part of me. This is where I one day need to be also to be among those giant of people, the strongest of all of us, who are buried right here.
Fred Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina, talks about a former slave graveyard that is still used today to bury loved ones.
The story coming soon on http://bbc.com/news
The ‘slave row’ at Boone Hall Plantation.
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