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By Kevin Sack
Mr. Sack is the author of “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church.”
Charles Pinckney’s stature in American history, sufficient to merit his own National Park Service site near Charleston, S.C., has little to do with his enslavement of scores of people to grow rice and indigo on his plantation, Snee Farm. Rather, Pinckney is best known as one of South Carolina’s four signatories to the Constitution, and later as the state’s governor and a member of Congress. So when one visits Snee Farm today, it is noteworthy, and laudable, that Pinckney’s career as an enslaver is given appropriate prominence in the Park Service’s overall portrait of his life — at least for now.
