Charleston, South Carolina was one of the largest slave trading hubs in the south. A tour of the slave mart with nicole green, director of what is today the Old Slave Mart museum. We are sitting in the former sales room of the auction complex. We are on the second floor, but originally this building did not have a second floor. It was just a long, narrow building that was part of a complex of four buildings that made up ryan smart. Ryans mart. Port of entry for enslaved africans coming into what is now the united states. About 40 of all enslaved africans coming into this centuryin the 18th entered through the port of charleston. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was abolished in 1808, although there was smuggling. The domestic slave trade, since the majority of enslaved people who were sold here were americanborn. Were the children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren of enslaved africans, brought here against their will generations before. In 1856, when we see the first advertised slave
And Chattanooga National Military Park, one of several small areas that are part of the Missionary Ridge battlefield of the larger chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. The veterans will come together and get congress to establish in andst of 1890 chickamauga Chattanooga National Military Park as the first such public area in the United States. Subsequently, battlefields at antietam, shiloh, gettysburg, and vicksburg will be created in the first era of preservation and commemoration of the civil war, on the very ground where it occurred. Today, this National Military park, with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain, the small areas preserved here on Missionary Ridge still tells this story, a vital story in the course of our nations history, an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. You can read about our countries but here youoks, can walk some of the very ground where those decisions were made. Even though here on the chattanooga