Ziba B. Oakes
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title:
Ziba B. Oakes
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Ziba Burrill Oakes was a broker of slaves and real estate in Charleston, South Carolina. Oakes is significant in the history of American slavery in part due to his construction of what he called a "shed" at 6 Chalmers Street. The shed still stands and is now Charleston's Old Slave Mart Museum. The site as a whole, once a much larger assemblage of buildings and pens, was generally known as Ryan's mart or Ryan's nigger-jail, and shut down in late 1864 or early 1865, supposedly "when owners Thomas
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American slave trader (1807–1871)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziba_B._Oakes
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2023-11-13T00:22:14Z
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