Historical Marker
St. James Rosenwald School
Historical marker location:
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
( Marker is on State Highway 707, 0.2 miles south of McDowell Short Cut Road (State Highway 477), on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2005
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.