Featured News and Events

Past Events

• CSSC Annual Lecture and Student Workshop: Jarvis McInnis, Ph.D.

  

  Duke University scholar Jarvis McInnis, Ph.D., delivered the 25-26 annual lecture for the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston on Monday, March 23, 2026 at 5:30 p.m., Maybank 100. His lecture is entitled “From Tuskegee to the Black World: Charting a New Genealogy in Slavery’s Aftermath.” For more information, please contact Dr. Sam Flores at floresso@cofc.edu.
  
  Professor McInnis conducted a student workshop on Tuesday, March 24, from 10:50-11:50 a.m., Addlestone 127. Students participated in a primary souce analysis with Professor McInnis, exploring some of the archival documents he used in his book Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South.

• Professor Otis Pickett’s Book Release Events
  

  A discussion with Otis Pickett, Ph.D. with insights from his book "Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves,' the religious history of our community and the meaning of emancipation.

   

  Book Release Events
• Dangerous Learning With Derek Black, Ph.D.

  

  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. Professor Derek Black tells their stories and their implications for today’s fraught educational landscape.

   

  Dangerous Learning With Dr. Black
• CSSC Remembrance Program

  The Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston (CSSC) along with the Charleston Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) celebrated the annual Remembrance Program commemorating the lives of Africans who perished and survived the Middle Passage and their cultural and spiritual bequest to us all.   

  CSSC Remembrance Program
• CSSC’s Annual Lecture Series with Christina Dickerson-Cousin, Ph.D.

  The Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston’s Annual Lecture welcomed Christina Dickerson-Cousin, Ph.D to discussed her book, Black Indians and Freedmen: The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans, 1816-1916. 

  Professor Dickerson-Cousin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Geography at Quinnipiac University specializing in African American and Native American History. She earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

  Lectures with Dr. Dickerson-Cousin
• Black History Month Lecture with Shannon Eaves, Ph.D.

  

  The Department of History’s Annual Black History Month Lecture featured 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. 

  Dr. Eaves' Black History Lecture
• Charleston ASALH and CSSC Kicks Off BHM

  The Charleston Area Branch of ASALH and CSSC hosted a Black History Month Kick Off Event on Sat., Feb. 1, 2025. The theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on ways labor has shaped the experience of African Americans throughout history.

  Charleston ASALH Kicks Off BHM
• Carter G. Woodson, Black History Month Highlight

  

  Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History promoting Black historical achievements. He later launched the Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week, now known as Black History Month.

  Carter G. Woodson Highlight
• Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance

  

  The Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston and the Charleston Area Branch Association celebated the Study of African American Life and History on June 8th, 2024 for the 27th Annual Charleston Middle Passage Remembrance Commemoration Ceremony.

  Middle Passage Remembrance