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Photographer: Charleston County Library
Caption: Marker detail: 1849 Map of Charleston
Additional Description: Gadsden's Wharf (in yellow) was a complex of warehouses for captive Africans, rice and indigo. It included lumberyards, a cooper shop, counting and weighing houses, jetties for large ships, a steam powered rice mill, a saw mill, turpentine distilleries, residential lots and a covered market. The sale of human beings was a part of everyday bustling, commercial activity.
Submitted: May 24, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p476013
File Size: 3.427 Megabytes

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