by Joseph McGill | May 22, 2019 | Blog Posts
The idea of spending nights in slave dwellings is not an easy concept for some. Even today there is often push back to the Slave Dwelling Project’s effort to honor the enslaved Ancestors. There are those among us who would much rather have the subject of slavery go...
by Joseph McGill | May 18, 2019 | Blog Posts
Wait for it. Wait for it. Twelve of our former Presidents enslaved people. Until spending a night at Mount Vernon, members of the Slave Dwelling Project had slept at the homes of Presidents Andrew Jackson, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and James K. Polk in that...
by Joseph McGill | May 5, 2019 | Blog Posts
Many antebellum historic sites use the excuse of not having enough information about enslaved people as their reason for not including them in their narratives. What that has given us is a sugarcoated, watered down version of history at these sites. A history that...
