Charleston Time Machine

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Episode 59: 10 Progressive Women of Early 20th Century Charleston - Charleston Time Machine Mar 28, 2018

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A century ago, this community was just beginning to emerge from a social, economic, and cultural rut created by backward-looking politics. To move Charleston forward, we needed to embrace new, progressive ideas and policies, especially those recognizing the equal rights of women and of the African-American population.

Episode 58: Charleston Emigrant Society of 1795 - The Charleston Time Machine Mar 22, 2018

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During its brief tenure, this organization embarked on a promotional campaign to lure Europeans to settle in the Palmetto State. Who was the Emigrant Society, and what were their motivations?

Episode 57: James Hoban's Charleston home - Charleston Time Machine Mar 13, 2018

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James Hoban, Irish architect of the White House, was introduced to George Washington in Charleston in 1791. Their fortuitous meeting here in Hoban's adopted home propelled the Irishman to international fame in the new city of Washington, D.C.

Episode 56: Charles Town's Growing Pains - Charleston Time Machine Mar 07, 2018

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Between 1670 and 1783, urban Charles Town evolved by degrees from a lawless market town to a corporate city with a robust municipal government.

Episode 55: The South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 - Charleston Time Machine Mar 01, 2018

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Drafted here in Charleston 150 years ago, the South Carolina Constitution of 1868 was a "radical" document created in the midst of an important, but largely forgotten struggle for civil rights equality.

Episode 54: Denmark Vesey's winning lottery ticket - Charleston Time Machine Feb 22, 2018

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What do Denmark Vesey, Charleston lotteries, and the iconic "High Battery" have in common? Plenty. You can't tell the story of one without mentioning the others.

Episode 53: Rhettsbury - Charleston Time Machine Feb 14, 2018

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Rhettsbury or "Rhett's Point" was a colonial-era, suburban plantation that in the nineteenth century became homogenized into Ansonborough, but it has separate history and identity that deserve to be remembered.

Episode 52: George Washington's Time in Charleston, 1791 - Charleston Time Machine Feb 08, 2018

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President George Washington came to Charleston in 1791 with three objectives in mind: to increase support for the new Federal government, to view the area's Revolutionary battle sites, and to indulge the thousands of admirers who wished see the hero of the War of Independence in the flesh.

Episode 51: Gadsden's Wharf - Charleston Time Machine Feb 01, 2018

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Let's explore the evidence behind the story of how, why, and when Gadsden's Wharf played a significant role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to North America.

Episode 50: End Of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Charleston Time Machine Jan 25, 2018

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A brief survey of the timeline of importing Africans into the port of Charleston, from 1670 to the Constitutional end of the trade in January 1808.

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