Historical Marker
Robin Helton
Historical marker location:
Boiling Springs, South Carolina
( Marker is on Robin Helton Drive, 0.1 miles east of Boiling Springs Road (South Carolina Highway 9), on the left when traveling east.)
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.