Albert M. Shipp

Historical marker location:

Wallace, South Carolina

( Marker is on U.S. 1 close to Delta Heights Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1970

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.