Knowledgeable guide, good tour overall to some of the highlights of downtown Charleston.
We did have some issues, however. We did not appreciate the guide making a few political comments/jokes, especially on such a politically sensitive day (election day).
Also, we found it interesting, even a bit disturbing, that while we heard quite a bit about the opulence and wealth of Charleston's elite and prominent citizenry prior to the civil war era, there was very little if any mention made in regard to the contributions of the enslaved people who made the accumulation of wealth possible, not to mention the horrific conditions in which the slaves were forced to endure. And none of the locations where the slave ships arrived, nor the locations of the actual slave markets, where pointed out or discussed. It almost seems as if there is a bit of a desire to, while perhaps not ignore, but at least de-emphasize the aspects of slavery that made such an important contribution to the economic achievements of the region during that time.
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Nov 2022
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