On Feb. 9, 1776, Christopher Gadsden stood before South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in Charleston with what the congressional record called an “elegant standard,” a yellow flag bearing a rattlesnake poised to strike and four words beneath it: “DON’T TREAD ON ME” The story of that flag takes us into a fascinating stage of South Carolina’s...
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