Ellis Island II
Ellis Island is the famous entry point for 20 million ancestors of Americans. Of the 55 Million immigrants who have come to the United States in the last 400 years, over 40 per cent came through that one entry point over the period 1880 to 1920. My
ancestors are "on the wall" at Ellis Island.
There is another island that is equally important for black Americans, yet it is currently unrecognized by the National Park Service. That is Sullivn's Island at the mouth of the port of Charleston, where fully forty percent of all the ancestors of
black American's entered America.
The purpose of this web page is encourage the recognition of
this quarantine location or pest house at Fort Moultrie National Park on Sullivan's Island as the slaves Ellis Island, or Ellis Island II.
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