• 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.
  • 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 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 is likely the only building still in existence in South Carolina used for slave auctioning.
  • Charleston's Old Slave Mart Museum offered a glimpse into a painful past but also a roadmap for the future.
  • 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...
  • Tempered and truthful, the Old Slave Mart Museum should humble any white person who visits it, and you should visit it.
  • 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.
  • The Old Slave Mart Museum, located at 6 Chalmers St., recounts the story of Charleston’s role in this inter-state slave trade by focusing on the history of this...
  • Once a part of Ryan’s Mart, Old Slave Mart is a complex with old brick enclosed yard, morgue, slave jail located on the Chalmers to Queen Streets.