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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Door

This door is the incredible entrance to the Col. John Stuart House on Tradd Street, which was built about 1772. The colonel was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the southern British colonies when the American Revolution broke out. He stayed loyal to the crown, which resulted in his arrest… and then his escape to Florida. He lived out his time there (trying to turn the native Americans against the colonists), dying in 1779.

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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