Hidden in Plain Sight: Centering the Domestic Slave Trade in American Public History

[...]in New Orleans, the booming commercial hub of the antebellum domestic trade, where one would expect to find multiple examples of its formal commemoration, none exist.5 Charleston's Old Slave Mart Museum (OSMM), located on a portion of the former Ryan's Mart property, serves as a vivid physical corrective to this glaring absence. According to David Brion Davis, excising slavery's commercial core was precisely "the way southern slaveholders, who tended to despise slave traders, wished to think of their labor system.