By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier

For Black History Month, we have focused on the book Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community, by Dr. John M. Coggeshall, an Anthropologist and Professor at Clemson University. Liberia is a historic community that dates back to the abolition of slavery here in upper Pickens County, South Carolina.  Soapstone Baptist Church and Soapstone School date back to the Emancipation Proclamation, and are part of a community

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