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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.

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

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 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.

In 1945, the Cigar Factory was the site of a famous strike--1200 workers, mostly black women, walked out over discrimination and low wages, singing "We Shall Overcome," which would become the anthem of the Civil Right Movement.

This is the house of former Charleston blacksmith and legendary artist, Philip Simmons, with his workshop to the right.

This placard marks the house and workshop of former Charleston blacksmith and legendary artist Philip Simmons.

This monument to Denmark Vesey was unveiled in 2014, at which time it was the only monument to an African or African American in the greater Charleston area. However, the monument stands in Hampton Park, on the north side of the city, and not in…

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