South Carolina legislation · 126th General Assembly
South Carolina H5810: UNESCO Middle Passage Marker
Status: Passed both chambers, August 25, 2026
What the bill says
From the introduced text, August 25, 2026:
2025-2026 Bill 5810 Text of Previous Version (Aug. 25, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly 126th Session, 2025-2026 Bill 5810 Indicates Matter Stricken Indicates New Matter (Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.) 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. W hereas, 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 W hereas, 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 W hereas, 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 W hereas, 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 W hereas, 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 …
Sponsors
- Carl Anderson (D, 103) · primary sponsor
- William Hewitt (R, 108)
- Terry Alexander (D, 59)
- Frank Atkinson (R, 57)
- William Bailey (R, 104)
- Nathan Ballentine (R, 71)
- Justin Bamberg (D, 90)
- Bruce Bannister (R, 24)
- Heather Bauer (D, 75)
- Thomas Beach (R, 10)
- Beth Bernstein (D, 78)
- Phillip Bowers (R, 3)
Latest actions
- : Introduced and adopted
Common questions
- What is H5810?
- H5810 is a bill in the South Carolina Legislature (126th General Assembly): UNESCO Middle Passage Marker.
- What is the status of H5810?
- Passed both chambers as of August 25, 2026. Latest action: Introduced and adopted (August 25, 2026).
- Who sponsored H5810?
- Carl Anderson (D, 103), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for H5810?
- On the South Carolina Legislature website: https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/5810.htm
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