Congratulation to Dr. Michael B. Trinkley and his Chicora Research
Foundation.
 
This below is a quote from Rod Welch, Editor of the SCIway (pronounced "sky
way")  web site which serves both as a content site and a link site for
those with interests about South Carolina.
 
Warm regards,
 
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Wayne Neighbors, Ph.D.
President & CEO, Vee Ring Ltd
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CHICORA FOUNDATION
BLACK HISTORY STUDIES NOW ON SCIWAY
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Most of the books I buy and read are about Southern history, especially
Robert E. Lee and the Civil War.  But this month I have read five short
studies about South Carolina slaves and free blacks that are as
captivating as any battle book ... and so close to home.
 
All of these historical/archaeological studies were produced by the
Chicora Foundation of Columbia (http://www.chicora.org), and all focus
on the everyday life of South Carolina slaves and freedmen:  how they
got here ... where they lived ... what they ate ... where they worked
... what they owned ... how they died ... how they were buried ... how
they dealt with freedom.
 
I'm happy to say that thanks to the cooperation of the Chicora
Foundation and the financial support of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
South Carolina, you can now read all five of
these quiet but eye-opening studies on SCIway
 
(see: http://www.sciway.net/hist/slavery.html ).
 
We have put a lot of time into making these publications easy to read
online, and we hope they will be particularly useful to our state's K-12
teachers and students.  But all South Carolinians -- black and white,
young and old -- would benefit from reading them, and I hope you will
take time to read at least one.
 
-- Rod Welch, Editor, SCIway