New museum in Charleston highlights city’s role in Transatlantic Slave Trade

The new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, opened to the public today. Its location is significant. Charleston was the largest slave port in the United States. And the new museum hopes to serve as an archive for the nearly 80% of African Americans who can potentially trace an ancestor who arrived there. Host Marco Werman explores the role of Charleston in the context of the entire Transatlantic Slave Trade with Christopher Brown, history professor at Columbia University.