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Alphonso Brown is most certainly one of Charleston's living legends. The owner and operator of Gullah Tours, he brings visitors on a journey through the city, sharing stories, local folklore, and the history of black people in that city.

John C. Calhoun is notorious for being a defender of slavery and a supporter of the South's secession from the Union before the Civil War. This statue in his honor stands in Marion Square. Like the Confederate Defenders of Charleston memorial at…

The Miles Brewton House was the home of Miles Brewton, a leading slave merchant who operated several slave ships.

Nathaniel Russell was a wealthy shipping merchant from Rhode Island, and participated in the slave trade both before and after the Revolution. This house is widely considered one the most important examples of neoclassical house design.

Although the guided tour does not focus much, if at all, on slavery, the waiting area before the tour has a small exhibit about slave life in the Nathaniel Russel House, including this display.

The yard would have been the main arena for the slaves of Nathaniel Russel. The "dependencies," or outbuildings where they lived and worked would have been located within this space.

This display is a continuation of the exhibit on the lives of the enslaved that began in the waiting area of the house. This is not part of the guided tour, however.

This display discusses the separation of space in the yard at the Nathaniel Russell House. A fence would have literally divided the formal pleasure garden from the rear utilitarian spaces.

At Drayton Hall, this is one of the oldest African American cemeteries still in use; it dates to the 1790s. Here lie at least 40 people, with both marked and unmarked graves. It was dedicated as a memorial in 2010, and the wrought-iron arch was…

Drayton Hall, located on the Ashley River, is a preserved platation home. They offer a program called "Connections: From Africa to America" before the main guided tour begins, the only direct part of the Drayton Hall tour that addresses slavery.