Jul 8, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts, Berkeley, SC, 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 NARA M1910, Reel 62, Target 3 TITLE OF CONTRACT: W.N. Batcheller with...
Jul 6, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Baynard, Thomas. Freedmen’s Labor Contract Berkeley County, SC, 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 62 TITLE OF CONTRACT: “Copy of...
Jul 5, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: S.W. Barker...
Jul 5, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: John T....
Jul 5, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: Dr. Elvin N....
Jul 5, 2012 | SC Freedmen's Labor Contracts
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Charleston County, SC, Contracts Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1868 NARA Record Group 105 M1910, Reel 63, Target 12 TITLE OF CONTRACT: J.T. Bennett...
Jun 29, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Did you know that you can listen to free, live genealogy talk shows online on BlogTalk Radio? BlogTalkRadio is the largest and fastest growing online talk radio network, where you can listen to thousands of shows on such topics as history, education, social networking...
Jun 23, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. No stranger to tourists, arguably the Heyward Washington House is the most historically significant stay to date for the Slave...
May 11, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
A resolution introduced by South Carolina Representative Andy Patrick calls for South Carolina to officially recognize the importance of Mitchelville, a Freedmen’s community built in 1862 on the Drayton family’s Fish Haul Plantation in Hilton Head, South...
Apr 30, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
I met Jenifer Eggleston ten years ago when I started working for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. While she worked in the Washington, DC office, she came to Charleston, SC to fulfill a requirement of her duties. Right after Hurricane Katrina Jenifer was...
Apr 23, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Robin Foster I just made it home from my first research trip as Co-Director of Lowcountry Africana. I almost willingly succumbed to sleep, but after retiring, my mind kept wandering through the experiences over this past week. I left home with the purpose of...
Apr 13, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
There have been times in this journey when it was wise to schedule slave dwelling stays back to back. My trips to Alabama, Missouri, and Texas are perfect examples of that. There has been one trip in South Carolina where that also applied; that was my stays at...
Apr 10, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Bush-Holley House “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bush-Holley Historic Site in...
Mar 26, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
“The door is open! The door is open! Who are you? Who are you?” According to “Old Reliable” Terry James, those are the words I uttered as I slept in a slave dwelling at Friendfield Plantation on the night of March 23, 2012. While my wife will easily explain that...
Mar 7, 2012 | LCA Main Blog
In 1821, Rebecca Perry Drayton, widow of John Drayton of Drayton Hall, petitioned the House of Representatives, seeking permission to free three family slaves named Abigail, Mahala and Rebecca. Abigail was described as “an old family nurse … now between...
Feb 21, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slave Dwelling Project Founder Joseph McGill has set the itinerary of overnight cabin stays for 2012. In addition to overnight stays in slave cabins in South Carolina, the Slave Dwelling Project will also visit Georgia, Connecticut, Mississippi, North Carolina and...
Feb 20, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Joseph McGill Outside Price House Slave Dwelling Nannie Jeffries, museum administrator of the Spartanburg County Historical Association, must be commended for being a visionary. It was late 2010 when she first proposed that I spend a night in the slave cabin at the...
Jan 11, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Joseph McGill, a program officer with National Trust for Historic Preservation, will speak at Claflin University on Thursday, Jan. 19. McGill has drawn national attention for his Slave Dwelling Project initiative, which seeks to garner increased recognition and...
Dec 7, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
Q: Can you tell us about the Seashore Farmers' Lodge and how it was a focal point for community life in Sol Legare? A: The community of Sol Legare is very unique and has a very intriguing history. It is one of the last remaining of its kind in the...
Nov 29, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
We have a lot of history hidden in the dark between the pages of our record books. I really wanted to bring it out into the light where anyone can find it. We are accomplishing that.” — Jim Powell, Jr. Since 1999, a small handful of dedicated volunteers...
Nov 28, 2011 | LCA Main Blog, Uncategorized
The Alachua County Virtual Cemetery Project On most Saturday mornings, cousins Taylor Griffith, 12, Camara Casson, 12, Elora Powell, 11 and Rianna Griffith, 6 venture out to spend some quality time with their grandfather Jim Powell. But...
Nov 26, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
On the day after Thanksgiving every year, StoryCorps asks all Americans to start a new holiday tradition: set aside an hour to interview a friend, a loved one, or someone in their community about his or her life. Lowcountry Africana is pleased to be an official...
Nov 15, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
"If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are." –Madeleine L'Engle ...
Nov 14, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. ~Thich Nhat Hanh Story Corps fourth annual National Day of Listening is Nov. 25, 2011. Each year Story Corps invites all Americans to set aside an hour on the day after Thanksgiving, to...
Oct 18, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
Seashore Farmers Lodge in Charleston, S.C. to Receive Preservation Honor Award October 17, 2011 | Contact pr@nthp.org or 202-588-6141 Washington, D.C.—The National Trust for Historic Preservation will present its Preservation Honor Award for the...
Jul 27, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Several Firsts in Maryland Slave Dwelling at Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood, Maryland Saturday, July 9, 2011 found me at Sotterley Plantation in Hollywood, Maryland. Southwest Airlines deserves credit for allowing this stay and lecture to fit perfectly...
Jul 23, 2011 | Research Methods, Research Methods by Michael Hait
The records we have located thus far provide both direct and indirect evidence that Robert S. Tarleton’s parents were Joseph and Sarah Tarleton. They were identified as such in the 1871 Freedman’s Bank record (see this earlier post for a full discussion)...
Jul 20, 2011 | Got Tools? by Robin Foster
Most folks do not know that you do not have to be stuck with a tiny profile photo on your Facebook profile nor on your Facebook fan page. Here are a few examples that I have created for my own profile and pages and for other people too: About Our Freedom: An...
Jul 12, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slavery in the North Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the City of Brotherly Love, these are all things we associate with the city of Philadelphia. I find it ironic that the purpose of my last stay in Philadelphia was to highlight that peculiar...
Jul 4, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Sleeping in a Relocated Slave Dwelling Visitors at Roper Mountain Science Center, Greenville, SC Saturday, June 11, 2011 found me in Greenville, SC to stay at Roper Mountain Science Center in a former slave dwelling that was disassembled from its...
Jun 26, 2011 | Got Tools? by Robin Foster
Use your Facebook account to create a special meeting place for your family to meet in one place online no matter where they live. You may have already seen these pages created by businesses and famous people. Even if you are now personally logged into Facebook,...
Jun 18, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slave Dwelling Project Visits Bellamy Mansion Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington, NC Sunday, May 15 found me spending the night at Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, NC. I arrived there around 4:45 pm which was good because the young lady working there did not have prior...
Jun 6, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Aiken Rhett House, Charleston, SC Saturday, April 30, 2011 found me at the Aiken Rhett House in Charleston, SC to spend the night in a former slave dwelling located there. I went there the day before with my daughter Jocelyn who had spent the night with me...
Jun 1, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slave Dwelling Project Receives Warm Welcome in Missouri “Before Joseph McGill’s visit during the 3rd week of April, very little recognition of Missouri’s Little Dixie slave cabins could be found beyond my own efforts with my program “Little Cabins.” I...
May 28, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Left to Right: Michael Bedenbaugh, Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation; Jeremy Thomas, New Owner Laurelwood Plantation; Joseph McGill, Slave Dwelling Project While my last few stays afforded me the opportunities to stay in slave dwellings in the states of...
May 2, 2011 | Got Tools? by Robin Foster
Does your stack of business cards look like this? Find yourself shuffling through a stack like this to find the contact info for the new friend you met at a recent conference? Now you can carry all your businesses cards with you right in the palm of your hand with a...
Apr 27, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
One can say that the reason that the 22 slave dwellings at Evergreen are still with us is because they were built of cypress wood. I attribute their existence to the fact that someone in their past made the conscience decision to preserve the dwellings so that...
Apr 13, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
Slave Cabin, Egypt Plantation. Artist: Ted Ellis March 29th through April 2nd found me in the State of Texas to spend nights in former slave dwellings at Egypt Plantation, Egypt, TX and Seward Plantation, Independence, TX and be the keynote speaker...
Apr 10, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
In the early 1900s, the Seashore Farmers’ Lodge No. 767 was a center of African American cultural life in the Sol Legare community on James Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. One of many mutual benefit societies in the Lowcountry, the Seashore...
Apr 4, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) has been awarded a “Save America’s Treasures” grant from the National Park Service. The grant will fund a re-analysis of a collection of artifacts excavated at Yaughan and Curriboo...
Mar 30, 2011 | Preservation Efforts
U.S. scientists and engineers are trying to save a toppled slave fort in Sierra Leone — a site where Rhode Island captains bought African captives 250 years ago. The team is part of a $5-million effort to preserve the fort’s stone walls, cannons and slave pens,...
Mar 25, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
It was not your typical father-daughter outing – there was no dance, no barbeque, no scavenger hunt. Instead, 14 year old Jocelyn McGill joined her father in an overnight stay at Middleton Place Plantation, to experience first-hand her father’s efforts to...
Mar 25, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
It was not your typical father-daughter outing – there was no dance, no barbeque, no scavenger hunt. Instead, 14 year old Jocelyn McGill joined her father in an overnight stay at Middleton Place Plantation, to experience first-hand her father's...
Mar 19, 2011 | Got Tools? by Robin Foster
If you have not queried Google Books to learn more about the geographical area where you ancestors lived or to find out what information may exist on your ancestor, you may be missing a valuable geographical resource. To access Google Books go to...
Mar 7, 2011 | Got Tools? by Robin Foster
When I was young, I used to sneak into my dad’s red toolbox to admire the tools he used and to make sure I knew the names of each and how each one was used. I was most fascinated by the tape measure and the level. My fascination for tools has carried over to...
Mar 6, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The Learning Network: Teaching and Learning with the New York Times Stories to Tell: Curating an African American History Exhibit Overview: Given that history is composed of many interwoven stories, how do curators and other historians decide which stories to tell?...
Mar 6, 2011 | FL Full-Text Reading Room
Mar 6, 2011 | GA Full-Text Reading Room
Mar 6, 2011 | GA Full-Text Reading Room
Mar 6, 2011 | GA Full-Text Reading Room
