South Carolina – African-American Cemeteries, Graveyards

• African-American Cemeteries in South Carolina - by county - partial list
  
• Grave Matters: The Preservation of African-American Cemeteries - history of burial traditions (including West African influences) ... differences between African-American and European-American graveyards ... actions you can take to help preserve them
  
• Slave Burials in South Carolina - how, where, and when slaves were buried
  
• Brown Fellowship Society - Charleston social club - established 1790 - renamed Century Fellowship Society in 1890 or 1892 - scroll to bottom
  – Additional info - explains the Society's role in securing a burial site (photograph) for its members as well as the subsequent desecration of this site (called Macphelah) by the Catholic Diocese ... also mentions the Society for Free Blacks of Dark Complexion (later called the Brotherly Society), a similar organization which established the Ephrath cemetery for people of pure African descent
  
• 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
  
• 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