AT&T Building

Historical marker location:

Denmark, South Carolina

( Marker is on Carolina Highway (U.S. 321), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1999

South Carolina was a major center of the transatlantic slave trade. Charleston was one of the busiest ports for the importation of enslaved Africans in North America, with an estimated 40% of all enslaved Africans brought to the United States passing through the city.