USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some 100, 000 West African slaves were taken to the wharf, located on the Cooper River near Charleston Harbor, between 1783 and 1808. “It is the place of arrival for a huge percentage of the early ancestors of people of African descent who live in America, ” Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said.

Detailed explanation-2: -Visitors to present-day Charleston often hear that some, most, or even all of the African captives brought here were landed first at Sullivan’s Island, where they performed a temporary quarantine at a site called a “pest house” before being taken to the wharves of Charleston for sale.

Detailed explanation-3: -[7] The earliest documentation for a slave ship arriving in eighteenth-century South Carolina dates from 1710.

Detailed explanation-4: -Advertisement notes that the runaway will most likely go to Charleston, South Carolina, where he has an aunt and uncle. Africans most likely first arrived in the area that would become South Carolina in 1526, as part of a Spanish expedition from the Caribbean.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Atlantic slave trade to North America The vast majority of slaves transported across the Atlantic Ocean were sent to the Caribbean sugar colonies, Brazil, or Spanish America.