724 Front Street

Historical marker location:

724 Front Street, Georgetown, South Carolina

( Marker is on Front Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Georgetown, S.C. .

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.