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One of America’s most prolific slave trading ports is to open as a museum after more than two decades of planning in Charleston, South Carolina.
The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday.
The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former site of Gadsden’s Wharf. About a mile from City Hall, Gadsden’s Wharf is where slave ships docked for years and unloaded at least 100,000 slaves.
Up to 800 enslaved Africans “quarantined there died during the cold winter of 1807 and were unceremoniously thrown into a mass grave nearby,” according to a report from the Post and Courier newspaper.
“Committed reckoning with history is a necessary stop on the road to healing and reconciliation,” Tonya Matthews, who was named as the museum’s president and CEO last week, said in a news release.
Plans for the museum were first publicly announced by the former Mayor of Charleston, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., in 2000. “Our journey has been long because it took time to secure the optimal site,” the former mayor said in a statement.
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The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday.
The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former site of Gadsden’s Wharf. About a mile from City Hall, Gadsden’s Wharf is where slave ships docked for years and unloaded at least 100,000 slaves.
Up to 800 enslaved Africans “quarantined there died during the cold winter of 1807 and were unceremoniously thrown into a mass grave nearby,” according to a report from the Post and Courier newspaper.
“Committed reckoning with history is a necessary stop on the road to healing and reconciliation,” Tonya Matthews, who was named as the museum’s president and CEO last week, said in a news release.
Plans for the museum were first publicly announced by the former Mayor of Charleston, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., in 2000. “Our journey has been long because it took time to secure the optimal site,” the former mayor said in a statement.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...AAXXOpa?cvid=75bd4458a9a04188a5b1626487826095