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The museum closed in 1987 due to budgeting issues. The City of Charleston and the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission restored the Old Slave Mart in the late 1990s. [7] The museum now interprets the history of the city's slave trade. The area behind the building, which once contained the barracoon and kitchen, is now a parking lot.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. SC-269, "Robinson-Aiken House, 48 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC", 81 photos, 11 measured drawings, 10 data pages, 5 photo caption pages; HABS No. SC-269, "Robinson-Aiken House, Slave Building and Kitchens", 4 photos, 2 measured drawings, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Gadsden's Wharf is a wharf located in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the first destination for an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans during the peak of the international slave trade. [ 1 ] Some researchers have estimated that 40% of the enslaved Africans in the United States landed at Gadsden's Wharf. [ 2 ]
The Nathaniel Russell House is an architecturally distinguished, early 19th-century house at 51 Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. [2] [3] Built in 1808 by wealthy merchant and slave trader Nathaniel Russell, [4] it is recognized as one of the United States' most important neoclassical houses. [5]
Charleston’s history is not without controversy – the city was once the slave trade capital of North America, acting as a key port for the movement of enslaved people from west Africa.
Free black Charlestonians and slaves helped establish the Old Bethel United Methodist Church in 1797, and the congregation of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church stems from a religious group organized solely by African Americans, free and slave, in 1791. It is the oldest A.M.E. church in the south, and the second oldest A.M.E. church in the country.
All of the following Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) records are filed under Charleston, Charleston County, SC: HABS No. SC-373-A, "South Carolina Railroad-Southern Railway Company, 456 King Street", 31 photos, 2 data pages, 3 photo caption pages
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