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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
