Monteith School

Historical marker location:

near 6510 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina

( Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 21), on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2009

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.