Belle W. Baruch

Historical marker location:

22 Hobcaw Road, Georgetown, South Carolina

( Marker can be reached from the intersection of Hobcaw Road and Route 17, in the median.)

(1899 - 1964).

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.