• Today, the Old Slave Mart Museum is owned and operated by the City of Charleston and is dedicated to sharing the story of the domestic slave trade.
  • The Old Slave Mart is a building located at 6 Chalmers Street in Charleston, South Carolina that once housed an antebellum-period slave-auction gallery.
  • Old Slave Mart Museum is one of South Carolina's greatest treasures. The Slave Mart Museum is often confused with the City Market.
  • The Old Slave Mart Museum is a significant historical site that offers visitors a deep understanding of Charleston’s role in the slave trade.
  • The Old Slave Mart Museum chronicles the story of Charleston's role in this interstate slave trade by focusing on the history of the slaves that were sold here.
  • The Old Slave Mart, located on one of Charleston's few remaining cobblestone streets, is the only known extant building used as a slave auction gallery in South...
  • A Path Forward. Charleston's Old Slave Mart Museum offered a glimpse into a painful past but also a roadmap for the future.
  • Tempered and truthful, the Old Slave Mart Museum should humble any white person who visits it, and you should visit it.
  • ...the Old Slave Mart was once part of a complex of buildings known as Ryan’s Mart that occupied the land between Chalmers and Queen Streets.
  • Built in 1859, the Old Slave Mart was actually constructed due to a tightening of slavery laws that led to the creation of no-less-horrible private auctions.