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Glimpses of Charleston

A local's eye view

Anchored on the Meeting Street end by the elegant Market Hall, the City Market is unusually quiet during the coronavirus pandemic. Designed by the famed Charleston architect E. B. White and built in 1841, Market Hall has some beautiful details, including the ram's heads above the columns -- signifying that it was a meat market.

Market Hall

Anchored on the Meeting Street end by the elegant Market Hall, the City Market is unusually quiet during the coronavirus pandemic. Designed by the famed Charleston architect E. B. White and built in 1841, Market Hall has some beautiful details, including the ram and ox heads above the columns — signifying that it was a meat market.

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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