South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5810
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Anderson, Hewitt, Alexander, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, McGinnis, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
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Introduced in the House on August 25, 2026
Adopted by the House on August 25, 2026
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
| Date | Body | Action Description with journal page number |
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| 8/25/2026 | House | Introduced and adopted |
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
A house RESOLUTION
To recognize and honor the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, as a designated site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Routes of Enslaved Peoples: Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage Project.
Whereas, the year 2026 marks the five-hundred-year anniversary of the first African arrivals to Winyah Bay in the Village of Georgetown, with Spanish explorer Lucas Vazquez de Allyon; and
Whereas, for more than five hundred years, approximately twelve million Africans were forcibly carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the largest forced migration in human history; and
Whereas, during the ocean voyages known as the Middle Passage, an estimated two million perished-lost to violence, disease, and despair; their names were largely unrecorded; and
Whereas, those who survived brought with them the languages, technologies, cultures, and agricultural knowledge of Africa's Rice Coast and surrounding regions, wisdom that would shape the Americas; and
Whereas, among the transatlantic documented vessels arriving to the port of Georgetown are Warwick in 1737, with eight captives, Endeavor in 1738, with thirty captives, Susanna in 1767, with thirteen captives, Peggy in 1770, with one hundred forty-four captives, and Betsy in 1784, with nineteen captives; and
Whereas, a Steering Committee of Georgetown, community members headed by Ron Daise, Beatrice Rodrigues, Marilyn L. Hemingway, Effson Bryant, and Mary Rice Crenshaw, was established in August 2025 to develop and install an exemplary Port Marker in Georgetown under the guidance of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project; and
Whereas, a Middle Passage Marker will be erected on sacred ground in Georgetown on October 24, 2026, honoring those who endured, remembering those who did not, and memorializing the cultural legacy of the Gullah Geechee people. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize and honor the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, as a designated site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Routes of Enslaved Peoples: Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage Project.
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