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The museum closed in 1987 due to budgeting issues. The City of Charleston and the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission restored the Old Slave Mart in the late 1990s. [7] The museum now interprets the history of the city's slave trade. The area behind the building, which once contained the barracoon and kitchen, is now a parking lot.
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The shed still stands and is now Charleston's Old Slave Mart Museum. [2] The site as a whole, once a much larger assemblage of buildings and pens, was generally known as Ryan's mart or Ryan's nigger-jail, [3] and shut down in late 1864 or early 1865, supposedly "when owners Thomas Ryan and Z.B. Oakes went off to fight in the war."
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Old Bethel United Methodist Church (HM/NR) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church (CP) Old Bethel United Methodist Church (NR) Old Marine Hospital/Jenkins Orphanage (NR) Saint Mark's Episcopal Church (CP) Old Plymouth Congregational Church (CP) Old Slave Mart (NR) The Parsonage/Miss Izard's School (HM)
Charleston's French Quarter is home to many fine historic buildings, among them, the Pink House Tavern, built around 1712, and the Old Slave Mart, built by Z.B. Oakes in 1859.
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website, includes Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center, a local history museum, and Stony Landing House, a furnished 19th century period home Old Slave Mart: Charleston: Charleston: Lowcountry: Historic site: Story of Charleston's role in the inter-state slave trade Parris Island Museum: Parris Island: Beaufort: Lowcountry: Military