Bamberg County

Historical marker location:

Ehrhardt, South Carolina

( Marker is on Rivers Bridge State Park Access Road, 0.2 miles east of State Highway S-5-8.)

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.