charleston (s.c.)

Claire Randall has traveled back in time to 18th century Scotland. There she met and fell in love with Jamie Fraser. Bearing his child, she returned to the present to raise that child. But when the past recalled her she went. When her grown daughter, Brianna, makes a disturbing discovery that sends her to the same circle of stones that took her mother into the past, Brianna knows she must follow. As she searches for her mother and the father she has never met, Brianna knows she is risking her own future to save their lives.

A brief history of Charleston, South Carolina, from its founding in 1670 to the end of the Revolutionary War.

In 1726, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.

In 1805, a thirteen-year-old slave and his friend make a dangerous escape from Charleston, S.C. and stowaway to head north toward freedom.

Examines events surrounding the mysterious sinking of the Confederate submarine, the "H.L. Hunley," and discusses the vessel's 1995 recovery from the waters off the coast of South Carolina.

The fifth novel in the Outlander series finds eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire Randall, a woman who has traveled back in time from post-World War II England, in the American colonies in 1771 and preparing for the coming revolution.

Continues the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser, a twentieth-century woman and a Scottish Highlander who fell in love when Claire traveled back in time through a stone circle, following the couple to the American colonies, where their attempts to make a new life for themselves are complicated by the arrival of their daughter Brianna, who has news from the future.

A biography of the African-American freedom fighter whose planned slave revolt in 1822, while never materializing, caused South Carolina to pass severe laws restricting the education, movement, and occupation of free blacks and slaves.

Chronicles the life of Denmark Vesey and explains how he tried to organize the largest slave rebellion in the history of the United States.