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This photo was taken just after Sunday service. It was here where on June 17, 2015, the Charleston church massacre took place--a gunman entered a prayer service and killed 9 people, including the Pastor, Clementa C. Pinckney.

This photo was taken just after Sunday service. This historic church is the oldest AME church in the South, and has one of the oldest and largest black congretations south of Baltimore.

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.

This exhibit described the goods sold here. Notably absent was any information about the sale of slaves.

The Old Plateau Cemetery, or Africatown Graveyard, is the burial ground of slaves, free blacks, and a Buffalo Soldier. Africatown was founded by freed slaves who were among those who arrived in American on the Clotilda, the last documented slave ship…

The Old Slave Mart is a museum dedicated to telling the history of slavery, primarily the history of the domestic slave trade in the United States, in what formerly was an actual slave mart, Ryan's Mart. The main entrance to the slave mart would have…

This floor plan is on display on the second floor of the slave quarters--this is not part of the guided tour, although guests are invited to take a look before or after.

This information accompanies the floor plan on the second floor of the slave quarters, and gives some indication as to what life may have been like for the slaves who lived here.

The Owens-Thomas House, run by the Telfair Museum, is a fine example of English-Recency architecture in America. It was built for cotton merchant and banker Richard Richardson. The tour begins in the original slave quarters seen here.

Although the focus of the Owens-Thomas House tour is the main house and its architecture, at least there is some verbal mention of the slaves who worked here.