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These shelters in Liberty Square feature banners illuminating Charleston's African American history; this particular banner about the Emancipation Proclamation reads "Henceforward Shall Be Free."

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This display at Libery Square discusses the history of Gadsen's Wharf, where slaves and slave ships would arrive in the port of Charleston until the international slave trade was banned in 1807. South Carolina would received more slaves than any…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The site of the future International African American Museum, being designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, is along the Cooper River just south of Liberty Square, and at the location of Gadsen's Wharf.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

These two houses are the only two remaining Borough Houses, named after the former Ansonborough neighborhood, which was in a predominantly African American part of Charleston. The rest of the houses were torn down, and all were vacated after it was…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

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.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.