LowCountry Africana

Search Records

Welcome to the new Lowcountry Africana, Dedicated to Exploring, Discovering and Learning About the Hidden Lives in the LowCountry.

Lowcountry Africana, sponsored by the Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Charleston, South Carolina, will be entirely dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida, an area that scholars and preservationists have identified as a distinct culture area, home to the rich Gullah/Geechee culture.

The Lowcountry Africana website will be a treasure trove of primary documents, book excerpts and multimedia for exploring and documenting the dynamic cultural and family heritage of the Lowcountry Southeast.

Lowcountry Africana is now live!

The beautiful images you see on our home page appear here with the kind permission of the Georgia State Archives online, where they are part of the Vanishing Georgia digital collection.

Dedication

The Lowcountry Africana website is dedicated to the enslaved men, women and children who persevered through one of the most tumultuous and painful times in American history. They left a legacy of hope and a presence always felt, even when there were no names to speak.

Stay with us as we begin to hear their voices and speak their names...