A 40,000-square-foot museum with a mission to honor the untold stories of the African American journey at the site of one of the country’s most prolific slave-trading ports opens today
A 40,000-square-foot museum with a mission to honor the untold stories of the African-American journey at the site of one of the country’s most prolific slave-trading ports opens on June
Towne founded Penn School in 1862 that was the first facility providing African Americans with a secondary education. Eventually it served as a normal school, training Black teachers to serve throughout South Carolina.