South Carolina's 250th tells revolution story, warts and all

South Carolina sees the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution as a chance to remind people that the state played a huge part in winning the nation’s independence, even if it did try later to tear the United States apart in the Civil War.

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Battles And Other Key Events , Ncluding Remote Swamps Where Patriots And Loyalists Skirmished In The War Of Independence Organizers Promise This Anniversary Wont All Involve Hero Worship Founding Fathers , Nd Wont Turna Blind Eye To The Slavery That Steered South Carolinas History For 400 Years 250th Commission Is Dedicated Telling Story Of American Revolution As It Exists Beauty And Warts Terror All , Aid Charles Baxley , Hairman Of The South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission And They Are Dedicated To Idea Which Isa Radical New Telling It From All Points View Or , S South Carolinas Preeminent Historian Walter Edgar Said Its Important To Tell Everyones Story Not Just The People In Fancy Knee Britches And Powdered Wigs Congress Commissioned America250 Foundation Five Years Ago Throw Biggest , Ost Inclusive Commemoration In Our Nations History On July 4 , 026 , 50 Years After The Continental Congress Approved Declaration Of Independence In Philadelphia Inclusiveness Is Already Evident Massachusetts , Hich Honored The Anniversary Of 1770s Boston Massacre With Reflecting Attucks , N Exhibit Examining The Life And Legacy Of Crispus Attucks Son Ofa Slave Anda Native American Was First To Die When Occupying British Soldiers Fired On Angry Colonists Anniversary Organizers In South Carolina , Hich Is Often Remembered More For Leading The Confederacy Into Secession , Ay The State Can Be Proud Of Its Role In Turninga Stalemated War Into Victory Against British , Ut It Sa Story That Cant Fully Be Told Without Including Its Treatment Of Enslaved People Many Slaves Fought For The British , Ho Promised Them Freedom Others Stayed With Their Owners , Ho Rewarded Some By Releasing Them From Bondage Slaves Were Often Used As Spies And Messengers , Nd South Carolina Militias Fighting For Independence From Britain Allowed Up To One Third Of Their Units Be Slaves , Ut Only In Support Roles Like Engineers Or Sailors And Not As Front Line Armed Troops , Ccording To Edgars Book , Outh Carolinaa History For Most Black People , He Founders Soaring Proclamation In The Declaration Of Independence That All Men Are Created Equal Did Little To Change Their Reality Oppressive Servitude New United Statesa Quarter Century Later , More Than 100 , 000 People Remained Enslaved In South Carolina , Ven After 25 , 000 Slaves Were Freed By The British Some 5 , 000 More Just Disappeared There Were About 142 , 000 White Men , Omen And Children In The State 1790 Plight Of Slaves Is Acknowledged At Revolutionary War Visitor Center , Long With Native Americans On Both Sides Of The Conflict Other Displays Show Major Players Like Swamp Fox Francis Marion , Ho Thwarted Plans By British Gen Banastre Tarleton To Decisively End The War Marions Men Exhausted Bloody Tarletons Troops , Eading Them On Fruitless Swampland Chases , Efore French Allies Arrived And Together They Drove The British To Surrender It Sa Case Of Trying Touch Lightly On Everything Then Send People If Are Really Interested In Revolutionary War Other Sites That Going Go Into More Detail , Aid The Centers Director , Ickie Good There Are Thousands Of Stories To Tell , Nd Good Said The Centers Goal Is To Open Door As Many Of Them Possible , Y Combining Battlefield Heroics With Stories Of Common Men And Women Who Had To Decide Whether Join The Revolutiona Lot People Dont Want Their Heroes Besmirched , Gi Guess , He Said We Call Them Heroes They Didnt Themselves That Were People And Good Bad Did The Best Could In Impossible Situations Many Waysi Think Just Like Are Ironically , He Center Is In Camden , Ot Far From Where British Gen Charles Cornwallis Forces Routed The Patriots In 1780 Battle Of Camden , Ne Of Their Worst Defeats But South Carolinians Then Rallied , Orming Loose Militias That Ended The British Goal Of Winning War By South They Pushed Loyalists North , Nto The Trap That Led To Cornwallis Surrendering His Entire Army Gen George Washington Reason He Surrendered In Virginia Is Got Stuffing Beat Out Of Him Carolinas , He Historian Edgar Said Along With Blood And Battles , He States Anniversary Commission Wants To Commemorate The Liberty And Equality Ushered Into World By Founding Fathers , Ven Though Many Of Them Were Plantation Owners And It Would Take Nearly Two More Centuries For These Ideals To Fully Spread Across The Nation There Isa Bright Light In All This , Axley Said The Enlightened Language Of Founding Documents And Ideas That Made United States Possible It Really Was Not Guns , Ullets And Knives , T Was Those Powerful Ideas Are The Same That Resonate Today In Peoples Minds And Rhetoric As They Press Case For Equality Justice , South Carolinas 250th Tells Revolution Story , Warts And All , Texas News ,