Digital Collections Highlight: Our Heroes

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The South Carolina State Library’s digital collections contain rare primary research materials such as Our Heroes: Patriotic Poems on Men, Women and Sayings of the Negro Race. This book of poetry focuses on influential African American men and women in the late 1800s written by George C. Rowe, an African American minister, newspaper publisher, and poet in Charleston, South Carolina. To access more digitized materials in our collection, please visit our Digital Collections website.

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Upcoming Event

Cover's of Tally Johnson books.

Revolutionary Ghosts with Author and Storyteller, Tally Johnson

October 29, 2026, 6:00 PM

Please join us for our next Speaker at the Center talk with award-winning storyteller, author, and folklorist Tally Johnson, who will tell ghost stories from the Revolutionary War period, covering South Carolina from the mountains to the sea. You will learn some of the hidden history of the Revolution via the rich ghostlore of South Carolina, where the Revolution was won.