Fairforest Meeting

Historical marker location:

Union, South Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Cross Keys Highway (State Highway 49) and Police Club Road, on the left when traveling east on Cross Keys Highway.)

Marker installed: 1975

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.