African American History Monument South Carolina State House
Grounds at Main and Gervais Streets Main & Gervais Streets
Columbia, SC 29201 The African American History Monument, the
first of its kind on any of the nation's statehouse grounds, was
designed to recapture the rich history of African Americans and
their contributions to the state of South Carolina. Sculptor Ed
Dwight of Denver, CO, modeled the monument after an African
village built in the round. A map of the continent mounted in
granite shows the original homelands of the enslaved Africans.
The monument's panels pick up the story from their arrival in
the port city of Charleston into the 21st century.