Slavery built a nation
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12.5 million human beings were brought to North America in the Middle Passage. The largest single wharf in the U.S. which handled the disembarkation of that cargo was in Charleston. The site today houses the International African American Museum. It’s an experience as searing to me as the one at the Smithsonian.
At one time, Blacks outnumbered whites in South Carolina because of slavery. What bondage and forced labor did for the economy is not up for debate any more and Charleston is a symbol of what that world was like.
