Examples of Charleston in the following topics:
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- The southern region had very few urban places apart from Charleston, where a merchant elite maintained close connections with nearby plantation society.
- Merchants, lawyers, and doctors in Charleston often desired to buy lands and retire as country gentlemen.
- Charleston supported diverse ethnic groups, including Germans and French, as well as a free black population.
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- With Savannah secured, British Commander-in-Chief Henry Clinton launched a new assault on Charleston, South Carolina, which he had failed to capture in 1776.
- Clinton moved against Charleston in 1780, blockading the harbor in March and bringing 10,000 troops to the area.
- Following the victory at Charleston, General Clinton turned over British operations in the South to his second-in-command, Lord Cornwallis.
- The Continental Congress responded to the fall of Charleston by dispatching General Horatio Gates, a celebrated hero in the Battle of Saratoga, to the South with a new army.
- Though the tactical victor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs is contested, this engagement so weakened the British that they withdrew to Charleston, where Greene held them for the remaining months of the war.
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- By 1861, Fort Sumter in Charleston
Harbor was one of two federal possessions remaining in Southern territory.
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Carolina demanded that the U.S. federal government abandon its facilities in
Charleston Harbor.
- On January 9, 1861, as the Star of the West
approached Charleston Harbor, batteries at Morris Island and Fort Moultrie
opened fire, forcing it to withdraw.
- Beauregard to
command South Carolinian forces in Charleston.
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- The first of these were the Breakaway and the Charleston, which were both
based on African-American musical styles and beats, including the widely
popular Blues.
- The Charleston's popularity exploded after its feature in two
1922 Broadway shows.
- A brief Black Bottom craze, originating from the Apollo
Theater, swept dance halls from 1926 to 1927, replacing the Charleston in
popularity.
- By 1927, the Lindy Hop, based on the Breakaway and the Charleston
and integrating elements of tap, became the dominant social dance and was the
forebear of Swing dancing.
- Celebrated singer Josephine Baker dances The Charleston, one of the novelty dances that swept pop culture in the 1920s.
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- Three of the best known in the United States during the nineteenth century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
- For instance, when the British evacuated from Charleston and Savannah, they took 10,000 slaves with them.
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- Another region, near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, was settled under the Lords Proprietors in 1670.
- American Indians around Charleston obtained weapons from the Spaniards and from Virginia traders.
- The Charleston settlement was the principal seat of government for the entire province.
- The north continued to have its own assembly and council; the governor resided in Charleston and appointed a deputy governor for the north.
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- These included New Orleans, Louisiana; and
Mobile, Alabama, the top two cotton-exporting ports prior to the outbreak of
the war, as well as the Atlantic ports of Richmond, Virginia; Charleston, South
Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; and Wilmington, North Carolina.
- After 1862, only three
ports—Wilmington, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mobile,
Alabama—remained open for the 75 to 100 blockade runners still operating.
- Charleston was shut down by Admiral John A.
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- Even in cities such as Charleston and Savannah, the Southern urban elite held slaves to work as household servants.
- Near the beginning of the 18th century, planters began rice culture along the coast, mainly in the Georgetown and Charleston areas.
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- Though fewer in number than in the Upper South, free blacks in the Deep South (especially in Louisiana and Charleston, South Carolina) were also often mixed-race children of wealthy planters.
- Robert Purvis, born free in Charleston; became an active abolitionist in Philadelphia, supported the Underground Railroad, and used his inherited wealth to create services for African Americans.
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- This was first seen in 1825, as The Forgers, a dramatic poem written by John Blake White, premiered at the Charleston Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina.