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The Black people of Charleston on Memorial Day, 1865.

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Brenda Elthon
May 27, 2023
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Charleston.

The heart of the Confederacy and all that it represented.

For more than one hundred years, until Thomas Jefferson signed legislation to halt American participation in the international slave trade, half of the Black people who came to America in chains had arrived in Charleston’s harbor.

They came in groups of several hundred after weeks long…

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