White Southerners, historically called White Confederates or Southrons, are European Americans from the Southern United States, originating from the various waves of Northwestern European immigration
Fictional massacres depicted in An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War.
Mr and Mrs Andrews (c. 1750) by Thomas Gainsborough, a couple from the landed gentry, a marriage alliance between two local landowning families – one gentry, one trade. National Gallery, London.
First Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Elvis Presley, an icon of 20th century United States, was born into a Poor White family in Tupelo, Mississippi.
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predomi
Image marketing 18th-century tobacco produced by enslaved laborers in the Colony of Virginia (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)
"Entered at the Custom-House Charleston for the week of the 28th instant...From Africa—New Negroes, 371. Rum, 7 punch. Ivory, small quantity" (Charleston Daily Courier, December 30, 1805)
The Old Plantation, watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly painted 1785–1795 in the Beaufort District of South Carolina (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum)
This postage stamp, which was created at the time of the Bicentennial, honors Salem Poor, who was an enslaved African-American man who purchased his freedom, became a soldier, and rose to fame as a war hero during the Battle of Bunker Hill.