Editing Beaufort, South Carolina (section)

===Books and film===
Beaufort has been the setting or the inspirational setting for several novels by long-time resident [[Pat Conroy]] and a popular filming location for major motion pictures, including ''[[The Big Chill (film)|The Big Chill]]'', ''[[The Prince of Tides]]'', ''[[The Great Santini]]'', ''[[Forrest Gump]]'', ''[[Something to Talk About (film)|Something To Talk About]]'', and ''[[G.I. Jane]]''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Most Popular Titles With Location Matching "Beaufort, South Carolina, USA"| url=https://www.imdb.com/search/title?locations=Beaufort,+South+Carolina,+USA&&tv=on| publisher=[[IMDb]]| access-date=August 17, 2012}}</ref> The "garden" in the title of [[John Berendt]]'s [[non-fiction novel]] ''[[Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]]'' is a cemetery in Beaufort. The [[Haitian Vodou|voodoo]] practitioner Minerva, based on Beaufort resident [[Valerie Boles]],<ref>[https://www.savannahnow.com/article/20090508/NEWS/305089880 "Reclusive voodoo priestess of 'Midnight' fame dies"] - ''Savannah Morning News'', May 8, 2009</ref> lives near the cemetery.

Lady's Island, the slave trade and the [[American Revolutionary War]] are the topics of an award-winning novel by the Canadian writer [[Lawrence Hill]], ''[[The Book of Negroes (novel)|The Book of Negroes]]'' (2007) (published in the US as ''Someone Knows My Name''). It portrays the evacuation of Black Americans from Manhattan by the British after the Revolutionary War, as they had promised freedom to those enslaved by Patriots who joined their forces. The British transported more than 3,000 freedmen for resettlement to [[Nova Scotia]], where they became known as [[Black Loyalist]]s; others were taken to England and the Caribbean. The ''[[Book of Negroes]]'' is the record of names and origins of freedmen taken to Canada.{{citation needed|date=March 2022}}