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Old Slave Mart Museum
6 Chalmers St., Charleston, SC 29401 (French Quarter) Phone: 843-958-6467About
The Old Slave Mart building is full of history but the most interesting part of our visit was the short introduction done by the gentleman at the entrance. The tour of the building is self guided and there really isn't much to it. The 1808 ban on the United States' participation in the international slave trade led to a renewed demand for slave labor, which was satisfied, in part, by the creation of a domestic slave-trading system in which Charleston functioned as a major slave collecting and reselling center. The Old Slave Mart Museum, located at 6 Chalmers St., recounts the story of Charleston's role in this inter-state slave trade by focusing on the history of this particular building and site and the slave sales that occurred here.
