Jan 11, 2017 | Florida Ancestors, GA Ancestors, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Plantations were the sites of unspeakable tragedies – unrelenting labor from sunup to sundown and in many cases, violence and rape. Enslaved people lived in houses where an entire family shared a small, single room with a fireplace and nothing more. In...
Nov 26, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, National Day of Listening
Each year, StoryCorps asks all Americans to set aside an hour on the day after Thanksgiving to interview a family member, friend or loved one about their life. This Friday, November 28, is the 7th annual National Day of Listening. Lowcountry Africana is a proud...
Sep 25, 2013 | Joseph McGill
no images were found The weekend of August 30 – 31, 2013 was intense for the Slave Dwelling Project for I would find myself spending the night in two different slave dwellings in two nights. Both locations, 16 ½ Glebe Street and 25 Longitude Lane are located in the...
Aug 29, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
I was once told by a genealogist early on in this project that “you concentrate on saving the places, we will put the people there.” Since the Slave Dwelling Project started in May 2010, unexpected liaisons have been formed. At the Bush Holly House in Greenwich,...
Aug 6, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
150th Anniversary Commemoration, Assault on Battery Wagner By Joseph McGill “Approximately 200,000 African American men served in the Union Army and Navy during the American Civil War. For this particular stay, it was not much of a stretch for the Slave Dwelling...
Jul 30, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
As a field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I have known Brian Davis, the Director of the Historic Salisbury Foundation in Salisbury, North Carolina since he was employed by the Galveston Historic Society in Galveston, Texas. Approximately one...
Jul 30, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
[ngg_images gallery_ids=”168″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_horizontal_filmstrip” gallery_width=“500″ gallery_height=“500] There are occasions when the concept of the Slave Dwelling Project is challenged. Oakland Plantation...
Jun 12, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
no images were found Operated by the state of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources, Ossabaw Island, Georgia would be the second stay for the Slave Dwelling Project with a high level of bureaucracy, Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia was the first. The...
Jun 4, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
no images were found When I started the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010, I established some rigid rules. Here are a few: 1) No sleeping in dwellings that are not in their original location. 2) No sleeping in dwellings that have been recreated. On Thursday, May 2, 2013,...
Apr 29, 2013 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Joseph McGill, Slave Dwelling Project [ngg_images gallery_ids=”100″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_pro_horizontal_filmstrip” gallery_width=“500″ gallery_height=“500] I know for sure that I have spent nights in slave dwellings in...
