Born a free woman around 1740, Menemin was captured and sold into slavery in Africa. She was then forced to take the tumultuous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to South Carolina where she was purchased by her enslavers, the Calhoun family. Mememin…

Susan Clemson Richardson was born into slavery at Fort Hill around 1828. Both her mother, Daphne, and her father, Bill Lawrence, were enslaved by the Calhouns. Her mother worked in the Fort Hill Plantation House as a wet nurse to her enslaver’s first…

As the granddaughter of Thomas and Frances “Franny” Fruster, and grandmother of the first Fruster family Clemson graduate (Eric Young) Juanita G. Webb’s domestic service at Clemson brings us insight into the experiences of Black Women in the area at…

As told by Dorothy and Delores themselves when they returning back to Clemson to speak at the “To Be Young, Gifted, Black, and Female” event on campus, they recalled one of their most clear memories of college to be their first day walking into the…

Ella Johnson was born on June 22nd,1917 in Darlington, South Carolina (1). She would live there until 1939 when she moved to New York City to perform with her brother, Buddy Johnson. Buddy was two years older than her and the lead band member at the…

Carrel Cowan Ricks was an American historical archaeologist that worked with Clemson University from 1991-1993. It is because of her work looking for the enslaved people’s burial grounds from pre-Woodland Cemetery that we were able to discover so…