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This view of the Heyward-Washington House is looking from the back of the lot onto the back of the house. This backlot was the realm of the slaves, who lived within these walls.

This outbuilding housed the kitchen and the quarters where the slaves lived and worked. The placard describes what their daily lives may have been like.

This placard indicates the work yard in which the slaves worked and lived.

The Joseph Manigault House is a historic house museum run by the Charleston Museum.

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.

Exchange Place, or Exchange Alley, was the corridor that connected the American to the French sectors of town. It was created as a result of the 1829 law against keeping slave depots and jails in the French Quarter. Slaves would be led through the…

This monument was originally erected in 1891, as a "memorial to white supremacy," to honor those whites who died in 1874, during the attack of the Crescent City White Leage (all whites) on the New Orleans Metropolitan Police (blacks and whites). As a…

The nearby forrests not only provide protection from incoming tsunamis but are also a reliable and sustainable source of material

Traditional tatami mats can be found in all of the new permanent and temporary housing structures