Possibly the only known building used as a slave auction gallery in South Carolina still in existence, the Old Slave Mart was once part of a complex of buildings known as Ryan’s Mart. The complex had a brick wall enclosed yard, a four-story building that contained a “barracoon” or slave jail, a kitchen and a dead house or morgue. Slave auctions ended here in November 1863. The Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston has reopened to rave reviews. The museum recounts the story of Charleston’s role as an urban slave-trading center during the domestic slave trade.
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