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The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum-period slave-auction gallery. [2] Constructed in 1859, the building is believed to be the last extant slave auction facility in South Carolina.
A pile of old rubbish lay upon the floor, — sermons, tracts, magazines, books, papers, musty and mouldy, turning into pulp beneath the rain-drops which came down through the shattered roof. ¶ Amid these surroundings was the Slave-Mart, — a building with a large iron gate in front, above which, in large gilt letters, was the word MART.
County Records Building, designed by Robert Mills as first "fireproof" building in U.S. Now the South Carolina Historical Society 40: ... Old Slave Mart.
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Old Bethel United Methodist Church (HM/NR) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (CP) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (NR) Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage (NR) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (CP) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Old Slave Mart (NR) The Parsonage/Miss Izard's School (HM)
Charleston's French Quarter is home to many fine historic buildings, among them, the Pink House Tavern, built around 1712, and the Old Slave Mart, built by Z.B. Oakes in 1859.
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A dolphin emblem of slave trader Edward Colston will be removed from the logo of the University of Bristol - but the names of seven buildings with links to the transatlantic trade will be kept ...