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The Aiken-Rhett House Museum has been conserved and run by the Historic Charleston Foundation. It features an impressive back lot where the original slave quarters and outbuildings still exist. These walls surround that lot.

The kitchen of the Aiken-Rhett House sits on the ground floor of the outbuilding that also contains the slave quarters above. This kitchen is where it is believed that the slaves communally took their meals.

The sleeping quarters at the Aiken-Rhett House exist on the second floor of the kitchen outbuilding. Most feature windows overlooking the yard.

On the second floor of this particular outbuilding is the slaves' sleeping quarters. This corridor features windows that overlook the yard; the rooms are to the right.

The outbuilding with the kitchen and slave quarters is to the left; the carriage house and stables are to the right. The open doorway on the ground floor of the main house to the left leads to the warming-kitchen.

This view of the yard shows the outbuilding with the kitchen and slave quarters to the right; the open corridor on the second floor is visible.

This portion of the Riverwalk along Charleston's Cooper River was dedicated in memory to Philip Simmons. This location marks the beginning of the area in which the new International African American Museum is sited for construction.

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 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…

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.