Edmondston's Wharf / Adger's North Wharf (Gadsden's Wharf Marker)

Historians estimate more than 100,000 enslaved Africans were disembarked and held here at Gadsden's Wharf — on Charleston's Cooper River waterfront — between the 1760s and 1808, making this ground among the most consequential in American history. Charleston was, as the record states plainly, the capital of American slavery. The International African American Museum now stands on this approximate site, built to honor what happened here.