Selling slavery

Charleston has long made its fortune by bringing people here. Today, it's tourists. Centuries ago, it was slaves.

Both have been thriving industries, though Charleston has long denied the costs of human bondage.

Now 200 years after the importing of human cargo was banned in this country, the long-neglected history is a source of new interest — and business — for visitors searching for the antebellum South. Carefully preserved plantations are sprucing up their slave cabins, Charleston's sole art museum has produced a wide-ranging exhibit focusing on slavery and plantation life, and the city has restored and opened to the public one of the markets where people were once sold like sweetgrass baskets.

For more see Sunday's Post and Courier.