South Carolina – African-American Cemeteries, Graveyards

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African-American Cemeteries and Graveyards in SC

• African-American Cemeteries in South Carolina - by county
  
  
• Brown Fellowship Society - the oldest funeral society in Charleston - established 1790 - renamed Century Fellowship Society in 1890 or 1892 - scroll to bottom
  
  
• Colored Asylum Cemetery - the City of Columbia has bulldozed this site and plans to use it for a golf driving range ... 1400-2000 black patients of the South Carolina State Hospital are buried here ... also known as Farm Cemetery
  
  
• Grave Matters: The Preservation of African-American Cemeteries
  
  
• Looks Can Deceive in Slave Cemeteries - more about the differences between white and black graveyards
  
  
• Razing the Dead - Charleston County - explains how property owners, developers, and governments are prohibiting black people from visiting the grave sites of their loved ones and ancestors ... specifically addresses King Cemetery and Old Alston Cemetery in Jacksonboro
  
  
• Slave Burials in South Carolina