by Joseph McGill | Sep 30, 2019 | Blog Posts
On Tuesday, March 14, 1845, President James K Polk was sworn in by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, infamous for the Dred Scott Decision. History is not always wrapped up with a bow. We want our heroes to remain heroes. We tend to avoid history that takes us out of our...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog Posts
Some say that hurricanes follow the paths of slave ships. Nine years ago, the actions of the Slave Dwelling Project were haphazard. I learned as I went. It was a crazy idea to spend nights in extant slave dwellings in the state of South Carolina. By that time in my...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog Posts
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia,...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 1, 2019 | Blog Posts
As a South Carolinian, raised on an educational system with a high proportion of revisionist history, I was a work in progress. Examples: All slaves were happy; the Civil War was about state’s rights; Nat Turner was a bad man. That South Carolina history showed...
