Pierce Mason Butler

Historical marker location:

Edgefield, South Carolina

( Marker is on Norris Street, on the right when traveling south.)

April 11, 1798 - August 20, 1847. Governor 1836-1838.

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.