What is special about the African-American cultural and educational center the descendants of enslaved Africans from South Carolina attended?
Penn Center (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina): The Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, is an African-American cultural and educational center near Frogmore, South Carolina, on Saint Helena Island. Penn Center (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina):  Founded in 1862 by missionaries from Pennsylvania, it was the first school founded in the Southern United States specifically for the education of African-Americans. Gullah: The Gullah are the descendants of enslaved Africans from various people who lived in the Lowcountry regions of the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina, in the area of both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.
first school founded in the Southern United States specifically for the education of African-Americans