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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Church Street Cutie

This little house was built on Church Street c. 1750. A few blocks up the street you will find St. Philip’s Church. In its graveyard are buried, among others a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (Edward Rutledge), a signer of the U.S. Constitution (Charles Pinckney) and a former Vice President of the United States (John Calhoun).

Ask a Local

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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