Episode 125: The Sales of Incoming Africans on the Wharves of Colonial Charleston

from Charleston Time Machine · host Nic Butler, Ph.D.

The arrival of more than 150,000 African captives before 1808 forms one of the most important themes in Charleston’s history, but there are many details about this traffic that remain obscure. To acknowledge the suffering and legacy of those people, many people wish to retrace their first footsteps here. But where did they stand when they were sold into a life of slavery in Charleston?

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