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...
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...
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...
