Exploring African Heritage with Discus - SC's Virtual Library

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Subscribe to our YouTube channel to find great online training! In this video you can learn how to discover African heritage, culture, and places using resources accessed through Discus - South Carolina's Virtual Library. Tour features in CultureGrams and search Gale in Context: Biography to locate information. Learn how to navigate CultureGrams to explore African countries and culture, people, recipes, maps, videos, and more. Also learn how to browse people and search persons by ethnicity, nationality, and occupation. 

Upcoming Event

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Author Patricia Brandon and "Rise of the Pale Moon"

February 11, 2026, 5:30 PM

Join us at the next installment of the Speaker at the Center with Author Patricia Brandon where she will discuss her historical fiction novel, "Rise of the Pale Moon." Set against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War era in coastal South Carolina, Rise of the Pale Moon weaves a compelling tale of three young women from distinct backgrounds: an indentured servant from London, a chattel slave raised on the Montague Hall plantation, and a Catawba Indian captured by the Cherokee and traded into slavery.