On Hilton Head Island in the Deep South, Annabel Grossman visits one of the most significant, but often overlooked, historical sites in American history ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. While history is often fractured, told from one or limited perspectives that do not flesh out the full story, stepping onto the ground ...

A sign outside Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park on Hilton Head Island. (Provided/Town of Hilton Head Island) Months before the Emancipation Proclamation declared an end to slavery, freed slaves were ...

Mitchelville Freedom Park's Juneteenth sleepover invited a diverse group to immerse themselves in the nation's first self-governing town of formerly enslaved people. The Historic Mitchelville Freedom ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park is hosting a legend in the New Year. On Dec. 19, the park on Hilton Head Island unveiled "The Journey to Freedom," a 9-foot bronze statue of ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — A small crowd strolled along a pathway in Mitchelville Freedom Park on a sunny June morning. Celebratory conversations were paused as they took in a series of monuments that have ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) — Freedom Day celebrates the history and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the African American community’s contribution to labor and development of historic Mitchelville, ...

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WCIV) — This Juneteenth, we are looking at a special community right here in South Carolina. “These folks went from being property to owning property. “Like this is a chance ...