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Middleton Place vs Old Slave Mart Museum
Middleton Place and Old Slave Mart Museum are both endorsed by experts. On balance, Middleton Place ranks marginally better than Old Slave Mart Museum. Middleton Place is ranked #6 in Charleston with recommendations from 6 sources such as Afar Magazine, Frommer's and Travel + Leisure.
Middleton Place
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4300 Ashley River Road, Charleston, SC 29414
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Travel + Leisure
"This 1741 historic plantation has an exquisite formal garden."
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Fodor's
"This former plantation is home to America's oldest landscaped gardens, begun in 1741 by Henry Middleton."
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Afar Magazine
"Middleton Place exists because of slavery—that's a stark reality that's not ignored by the exhibits throughout the sprawling plantation."
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"This carefully preserved, 18th-century plantation and National Historic Landmark features 65 acres of America’s oldest landscaped gardens."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"This is a place to spend time disappearing into the shrubbery, stumbling upon statuary, tiptoeing past sunbathing alligators, and learning about both stewardship and slavery."
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Old Slave Mart Museum
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Atlas Obscura
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6 Chalmers St., Charleston, SC 29401
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Fodor's
"This is thought to be the state's only existing building that was used for slave auctioning, a practice that ended here in 1863."
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Travel + Leisure
"An intelligent museum in a former slave-trade sales room."
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"The museum tells the stories of the African-Americans who passed through its gates and their contributions to American society and culture. Open M-Sa 9 am-5 pm."
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Atlas Obscura
"South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history. "
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Travel + Leisure
"The museum, housed in a building once used as a gallery where enslaved people were auctioned, tells this tragic story."
