Malcolm A. MacDonald

Historical marker location:

Clinton, South Carolina

( Marker is on Lynn Drive, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1980

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.