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The plantation home at Seabrook Plantation, photograph by F.D. Kracke, Edisto Island, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of the Charleston Museum.

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The plantation home on Runnymede Plantation, photograph by Morton Brailsford Paine, Charleston, South Carolina, 1917, courtesy of the Charleston Museum.

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The Plantation, ca. 1825, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This painting by an unknown artist depicts fields for cultivating cash crops, a ship for exporting goods, and a large mansion, but enslaved laborers are notably absent from this representation of plantation life. The role of slavery in producing plantation wealth is often erased or romanticized in American popular culture, from during the time of slaveryinto the present.

The program for the City of Charleston Community Prayer and Healing Vigil, June 19, 2015, Charleston, South Carolina.

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The program for the City of Charleston Community Prayer and Healing Vigil, June 19, 2015, Charleston, South Carolina.

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The program for the City of Charleston Community Prayer and Healing Vigil, June 19, 2015, Charleston, South Carolina.

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The Progressive Club Marker, photograph by Emily Pigott, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2015.

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The ransoming of Christian slaves held by Turkish, drawing by Giovanni Maria Morandi, ca. 1600s, courtesy of Musée du Louvre.

The Red Cross' sleeping apartments at their Charleston headquarters, circa 1893, photograph from The Red Cross: In Peace and War.

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The Remembrance Committee
Image courtesy of the U.S. National Park Service

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