Caw Caw Interpretive Center

Caw Caw Interpretive Center, a Charleston County Park rich in natural and cultural history, is located in the heart of Caw Caw swamp, the headwaters of the Stono River. The park was once part of several rice plantations built and worked by enslaved people and associated with the 1739 Stono Rebellion. It is the only site where the Rebellion took place that interprets the day's events. Charleston County Parks recently acquired the Sea Island Farmer's Cooperative, the site of the Stono Rebellion National Historic Landmark. Efforts are presently underway to open the Landmark and expand its boundaries to include Caw Caw Interpretive Center. To learn more about efforts to share the story of the Stono Rebellion, read the chapter I co-authored with Terri Snyder in Fugitive Movements: Commemorating the Denmark Vesey Affair and Black Radical Antislavery in the Atlantic World, edited by James Spady.

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Read "Slavery, Memory, and Resistance in the Low Country: The Commemoration of the Stono Rebellion"

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