Comment sent via email from reader Dean Gunderson:
If you go back to Charleston you should check out the McLeod Plantation. It's the only plantation on the East Coast that focuses on sharing the story of the enslaved people instead of their enslavers. They also have demonstration beds and good interpretive materials about sea island cotton which is the unique type of cotton that could only be grown on the sea islands that really bankrolled the slavery system in that area.
Also caw caw interpretive center outside of the city is a great hiking area that is in the remnants of a tea plantation so there are wild tea plants scattered throughout the understory.
Comment sent via email from reader Dean Gunderson:
If you go back to Charleston you should check out the McLeod Plantation. It's the only plantation on the East Coast that focuses on sharing the story of the enslaved people instead of their enslavers. They also have demonstration beds and good interpretive materials about sea island cotton which is the unique type of cotton that could only be grown on the sea islands that really bankrolled the slavery system in that area.
Also caw caw interpretive center outside of the city is a great hiking area that is in the remnants of a tea plantation so there are wild tea plants scattered throughout the understory.