by Joseph McGill | Sep 24, 2015 | Blog Posts
At the invitation of a Bratton descendant, I returned for my second overnight in the one extant slave dwelling at Historic Brattonsville. Although it was a return visit, this stay broke new ground in several ways. First of all, I was the Slave Dwelling Project...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 22, 2015 | Blog Posts
“I thought of children who might have been afraid of benign things like the sounds of animals scuffling through the night when there were much larger, darker things that stirred fear in their parents. I thought of mothers, tired from the day’s work, still tending to...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 7, 2015 | Blog Posts
Preserve: (1) to keep alive or in existence; make lasting (2) to keep up maintain My love of preservation was really tested in a recent stay in an extant slave cabin. I was very enthusiastic about my opportunity to work on a HistoriCorps restoration project especially...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 1, 2015 | News
The 1772 Foundation has donated $48,250 to the Slave Dwelling Project to support its 2nd Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference. The conference theme is: “A History Denied – Preserving Tangible Evidences of Slave Dwellings” and will be held at the Embassy...
