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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

This handsome entrance can be on a beautiful antebellum (c. 1856) house on the corner of Rutledge Avenue at Wentworth Street -- just up the street from Colonial Lake.

Grand Entrance

This handsome entrance can be on a beautiful antebellum (c. 1856) house on the corner of Rutledge Avenue at Wentworth Street — just up the street from Colonial Lake.

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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