Mar 9, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission will hold it quarterly meeting on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. at the South Carolina Archives and History Center, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia. Anyone interested in the preservation of African American...
Dec 9, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Thirty nine overnight stays in extant slave dwellings is proof that the Slave Dwelling Project is doing well. The year 2012 saw a lot of firsts for the project. For the second consecutive year, a northern state was included in the project when I stayed at the Bush...
Nov 12, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Back to the Beginning It was 12 years ago when I had my very first stay in a slave cabin at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, SC. The event was filmed for a History Channel documentary titled The Unfinished Civil War. The documentary aired a few times but flopped...
Oct 23, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
After a 3 month hiatus, the Slave Dwelling Project came back strong with two stays in Virginia. The first of the stays was Bacon’s Castle which occurred on Friday, October 5, 2012. Constructed in 1665 in Surry County on the south side of the James River, Bacon’s...
Oct 6, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Evening friends! We just had a wonderful live Facebook chat with Joseph McGill of the Slave Dwelling Project! Joe was chatting live from his stay at Bacon’s Castle. You can view live streaming video of his stay by following this link: Transcript of Live Chat In...
Sep 4, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Laurelwood Slave Cabin, Soon to be Restored In my attempt to bring much needed attention to the necessity to restore and interpret extant former slave dwellings throughout the United States, over the past 2 ½ years I have spent the night in 36 such places in 11...
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...
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...
