Palenque de San Basilio , or San Basilio Palenque, is located in the Bolívar Department, Caribbean Coast (50 kilometers from Cartagena), has about 3500 inhabitants, founded by slaves who escaped to find refuge in the Costa palenques in northern Colombia since the fifteenth century. The term gives definition to the place which is inhabited by Maroons and enslaved Africans during the colonial period. Thus these lands have meaning for its inhabitants something like a den and a trench, symbolizing the start point of cultural resistance that persists today.
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Palenque de San Basilio , or San Basilio Palenque, is located in the Bolívar Department, Caribbean Coast (50 kilometers from Cartagena), has about 3500 inhabitants, founded by slaves who escaped to find refuge in the Costa palenques in northern Colombia since the fifteenth century. The term gives definition to the place which is inhabited by Maroons and enslaved Africans during the colonial period. Thus these lands have meaning for its inhabitants something like a den and a trench, symbolizing the start point of cultural resistance that persists today.

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Exodusters Leaving the South In 1877 the Reconstruction Era ended in the South. Countless African Americans fled the South to escape the harsh Black Codes and violence they were subjected to. Thousands seeking the civil liberties promised to them obtained free land in the West through the Homestead Act.
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Exodusters Leaving the South

In 1877 the Reconstruction Era ended in the South. Countless African Americans fled the South to escape the harsh Black Codes and violence they were subjected to. Thousands seeking the civil liberties promised to them obtained free land in the West through the Homestead Act.

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University of South Carolina - 1877 In October 1873, a coeducational normal college was established on the University campus. The school was to be opened to blacks and whites who wanted to become public school teachers. It was mandated by the constitution of 1868 that the normal school share the resources of the University in terms of its library and teachers, who would periodically deliver lectures to the students. The first principal of the normal school was Mortimer A. Warren. In 1877, eight black female students were graduated in the first and only graduating class: Fanny Stanley Harris, Vernia Moore Harris, Maria Frances Aver y, Celia Emma Dial (Saxon), Laura Ann Grey, Clarissa Minnie Thompson, Eliza Jones Turner, and Rosa Emma Wilder.
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University of South Carolina - 1877

In October 1873, a coeducational normal college was established on the University campus. The school was to be opened to blacks and whites who wanted to become public school teachers. It was mandated by the constitution of 1868 that the normal school share the resources of the University in terms of its library and teachers, who would periodically deliver lectures to the students. The first principal of the normal school was Mortimer A. Warren.

In 1877, eight black female students were graduated in the first and only graduating class: Fanny Stanley Harris, Vernia Moore Harris, Maria Frances Aver y, Celia Emma Dial (Saxon), Laura Ann Grey, Clarissa Minnie Thompson, Eliza Jones Turner, and Rosa Emma Wilder.