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The International African American Museum (IAAM) is a museum of African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina, located at a former shipping wharf where approximately 40% of the nation's enslaved persons disembarked. The museum opened June 27, 2023, [3] after 20 years of planning. [4]
Overlooking the old wharf in Charleston at which nearly half of the enslaved population first entered North America, the 150,000-square-foot (14,000-square-meter) museum houses exhibits and ...
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Foresight of former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley to be applauded as state opens International African American Museum (Letters to the Editor)
Later the same year, on February 17, 1806, the city of Charleston passed an ordinance that all vessels carrying enslaved peoples had to land at Gadsden’s Wharf. [ 6 ] On January 1, 1808, a congressional ban on slave imports took effect and Gadsden’s Wharf was put to other uses, though enslavers continued to trade in human beings until the ...
John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture: Tallahassee: Florida: 1996 [89] Josephine School Community Museum: Berryville: Virginia: 2003 [90] Kansas African-American Museum Wichita: Kansas: 1997 [91] L.E. Coleman African-American Museum Halifax County, Virginia: Virginia: 2005 [92] LaVilla Museum: Jacksonville: Florida ...
Historic Downtown African American Business District (HM) Jamestown Historic District (CP) William H. Johnson Birthplace (HM) Roseville Plantation Slave and Freedman's Cemetery (HM) Trinity Baptist Church (HM) Lake City. Greater St. James A.M.E. Church (HM) The Lynching of Frazier Baker (HM) Joshua Braveboy Plantation (HM)
The new museum is set to open on Jan. 21. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us