Wade Hampton

Historical marker location:

1100 Sumter Street, Columbia, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Sumter Street and Gervais Street, on the right when traveling north on Sumter Street.)

Marker installed: 1977

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.