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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

A Well Rounded Guy

You can find this statue of James F. Byrnes outside the Federal Judicial Center on Meeting Street. Byrnes was quite accomplished — he served at the highest levels in all three branches of the Federal government (as a Congressman, Secretary of State and Justice of the US Supreme Court) AND was governor of SC. Few can claim to have had such success at both the Federal and State levels.

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What’s the deal with the City Market? Were slaves sold there or not?

asks John H., from Seattle, Washington… The City Market is what was called the “Slaves’ Market,” not the “Slaves Market.”  That apostrophe makes all the difference in the world. While a shocking number of humans were sold into slavery in Charleston (a very dark period in the City’s history), they were not sold at what […]

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