Slavery and Freedom Passage Memorial Site, Sullivan's Island

More than forty percent of the estimated 400,000 enslaved Africans brought to Colonial America entered through Sullivan's Island — which makes it the largest slave port in North America, and which means the ground here carries a weight Ellis Island never could. For years, there was nothing to mark that fact. Toni Morrison said so plainly in 1989: no tower, no wall, no bench by the road. The bench came later. The memorial site exists now. Go because the record required it, and someone finally made it so.