The South Carolina constitutional convention convened in Charleston, becoming the first official legislative assembly in the Western world with a Black majority. Of the 124 delegates, 76 were Black—two-thirds of whom were formerly enslaved—and 48 were white. A reporter from the New York Herald observed, “Here in Charleston is being enacted a spectacle without parallel in the history of the world.”
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