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School Programs

African-American History


Connections: From Africa to America

Students identify the connections among people through time and place and demonstrate an understanding of African-American life.

By using primary documents, artifacts, photographs, and stories, students analyze and interpret African American life during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

They learn about the interactions between people of European and African descent and how those cultural exchanges have influenced South Carolina and America today.

By observing and examining African instruments and baskets that are still made in both Senegal and the Lowcountry today, students learn to identify and describe how trans-Atlantic traditions have survived in a similar fashion for almost three centuries.

Programs at a Glance

Focused House Tours
African-American History
Archaeology
Colonial Life
From Peace to War
History & Science
Programs in Downtown Charleston
Package Programs: From Plantations to the City