The Heritage Library is a non-profit library offering research assistance on ancestry.
Their classes and tours focus on Hilton Head Island’s history from prehistory to modern times. You’ll always learn something new about something old at the Library’s events.
Take a look at what’s on the schedule for the month of November, 2022.
The History of the Rose Hill Plantation House:
- PRESENTER: IVA ROBERTS WELTON
- Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
- USCB HH Campus Room 115
- A study of the 19th century Gothic Revival Plantation House located in Bluffton including a firsthand account on part of the modern-day efforts to preserve its place in our history.
- Cost: $5.00
America 250 – The Start of the Movement for Independence:
- PRESENTER: LEE WILWERDING
- Tuesday, November 8, 2022. 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
- USCB HH Campus Room 115
- While the official celebration and observation of our 250th birthday traditionally starts with the Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, there are numerous significant events leading up to that momentous autograph party. The presentation will examine several of them. They fall into various categories of facts, myths, propaganda, poetry and some actual history.
- Cost: $15 non-members and $12.00 for members
The Institution of Slavery: Part I – Beginnings to the Triangular Trade
- PRESENTER: RICHARD THOMAS
- Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
- USCB HH Campus Room 115
- Explore the evolution of the practice of enslavement in different parts of the world from primitive man through the English shipment of Africans to the New World. The Native American slave trade as well as the Portuguese exportation of Africans to Brazil is examined as a precursor to the beginning of the African trade with the West Indies and North America.
- Cost: $15 non-members and $12.00 for members
The Institution of Slavery: Part II – Colonial Demand to Abolition
- PRESENTER: RICHARD THOMAS
- Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 10:30 AM – 12:00 NOON
- USCB HH Campus Room 115
- The development of the English trade in black African slaves as a response to the changing economy in the Southeastern American Colonies is explored in the context of the conditions of the Triangular Trade and the management and treatment of slaves on Southern Plantations. The rise of the Abolitionist Movement nationally and the path to Emancipation is also examined in relation to the revolutionary developments in the Port Royal Sound area in the early 1860’s.
- Cost: $15 non-members and $12.00 for members
For more information about the Heritage Library or to register for these events, go to www.heritagelib.org.
