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		<title>Gullah Celebration, Hilton Head Island, SC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official Poster: Feeding the Chickens by Alan Fireall Although its origins are rooted in slave history of the South, the Gullah Celebration in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina has become a tribute to West African language, crafts, culture and art. Described as “One of the cultural wonders of the world you must see,” by USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boone Hall Plantation &amp; Gardens, Mount Pleasant, SC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manor House, Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, NC First established as a rice plantation; later converted to cotton, Boone Hall Plantation traces its history to a 1681 land grant to Major John Boone. The plantation features nine original slave cabins, which housed the plantation&#8217;s house servants and skilled craftsmen prior to the Civil War, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drayton Hall, Charleston SC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Remember Denmark Vesey of Charleston!, Charleston SC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portrait of Denmark Vesey, Gailliard auditorium, Charleston, South Carolina A respected free man and Methodist leader, Denmark Vesey planned one of the largest insurrections in history on Bastille Day, July 14, 1822, involving thousands of free and enslaved blacks who lived in and around Charleston. The plot called for Vesey and his group of slaves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston SC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting the Aiken-Rhett House is like stepping into a time machine and traveling back to the Old South of 1858, two years before the outbreak of the Civil War. The compound, which includes stables, kitchens&#160;and slave quarters, is one of the most complete and authentic recreations of urban life of slaves and slave master of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston SC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Built in 1859 and once part of a complex of buildings, the Old Slave Mart (originally referred to as the shed) is the only slave auction gallery in South Carolina still in existence. The last slave was auction off there in 1863. Today, this slave auction site turned museum features over 100 items&#160;such as shackles, [...]]]></description>
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