Gadsden's Wharf

[3] The wharf is now home to the South Carolina Aquarium, the Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center, and the International African American Museum which opened in 2023.

Later the same year, on February 17, 1806, the city of Charleston passed an ordinance that all vessels carrying enslaved peoples had to land at Gadsden’s Wharf.

[6] On January 1, 1808, a congressional ban on slave imports took effect and Gadsden’s Wharf was put to other uses, though enslavers continued to trade in human beings until the 1860s.

[9][10] Early advocates for the museum also include Congressmen Jim Clyburn,[11] and now retired College of Charleston professor of history.

Retired College of Charleston professor Bernard Powers was named the interim CEO of the International African American Museum.