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“…a town of forty thousand…”
“Medical School in South Carolina III: Beginnings,” Kenneth M. Lynch, Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association, Vol. 61, 1965, pp. 146.
“…the infamous Charleston Workhouse…”
Sims’s autobiography does not describe his arrival into Charleston, but he most certainly would have come in from the west. I have taken some liberty here, but the workhouse, described some time later, would have been hard to ignore. It was also called The Sugar House.
“A Magnificent Slave-Pen,” F.C. Adams, National Anti-Slavery Standard, December 27, 1856, p. 1, reprinted from the Evening Post.
https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2017/11/29/the-sugar-house-a-slave-torture-chamber-in-charleston/
“Downtown Charleston…”
Some of the accounts of the atmosphere of Charleston draw on my own walks through the older parts of the city.
“…Miott’s Hotel…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 117.
“…board at Mrs. Murden’s…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 126.
“…the horrible news of the day…”
SIMS, J. Marion, (1885). The Story of my Life, ed. by H. Marion-Sims. D. Appleton & Co: New York, p. 127.
“…homes like those of Charleston…”
See “Downtown Charleston…,” above.
