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The yard would have been the main arena for the slaves of Nathaniel Russel. The "dependencies," or outbuildings where they lived and worked would have been located within this space.

Although the guided tour does not focus much, if at all, on slavery, the waiting area before the tour has a small exhibit about slave life in the Nathaniel Russel House, including this display.

Nathaniel Russell was a wealthy shipping merchant from Rhode Island, and participated in the slave trade both before and after the Revolution. This house is widely considered one the most important examples of neoclassical house design.

The Miles Brewton House was the home of Miles Brewton, a leading slave merchant who operated several slave ships.

John C. Calhoun is notorious for being a defender of slavery and a supporter of the South's secession from the Union before the Civil War. This statue in his honor stands in Marion Square. Like the Confederate Defenders of Charleston memorial at…

Alphonso Brown is most certainly one of Charleston's living legends. The owner and operator of Gullah Tours, he brings visitors on a journey through the city, sharing stories, local folklore, and the history of black people in that city.

These two houses are the only two remaining Borough Houses, named after the former Ansonborough neighborhood, which was in a predominantly African American part of Charleston. The rest of the houses were torn down, and all were vacated after it was…

The site of the future International African American Museum, being designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Architects, is along the Cooper River just south of Liberty Square, and at the location of Gadsen's Wharf.

This display at Libery Square discusses the history of Gadsen's Wharf, where slaves and slave ships would arrive in the port of Charleston until the international slave trade was banned in 1807. South Carolina would received more slaves than any…

These shelters in Liberty Square feature banners illuminating Charleston's African American history; this particular banner about the Emancipation Proclamation reads "Henceforward Shall Be Free."