Tabernacle Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Hodges, South Carolina

( Marker is on Cokesbury Road (State Highway 254), on the left when traveling east.)

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.