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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…

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.