Architect Henry Cobb designed the rectangular, single-story structure to appear to float 13 feet off the ground. Outdoor space for walkways, gardens, a reflecting pool are beneath the building and on the grounds overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The outside of the International African American Museum. She points out that the entire museum structure doesn’t actually touch that ground. Matthews calls it hallowed ground, with the museum transforming an entry point of enslavement into a location for education. “And a big part of that commerce was enslaved people.” “It was a major point of commerce,” Matthews says. Historians estimate nearly half of enslaved Africans who came to America arrived and entered at the port complex in Charleston. Gadsden’s Wharf was one of the nation’s largest trans-Atlantic slave ports, says Tonya Matthews, president of the museum. The museum is on Gadsden’s Wharf, where ships carrying enslaved people from Africa arrived to bring them into bondage in America. The new International African American Museum, which opened last month in Charleston South Carolina, stands at a location that is itself drenched in history.
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