by Joseph McGill | Apr 30, 2016 | Blog Posts
Clemson University has been in the news a lot lately. Their football team playing for the national championship is no small feat. I have been visiting the campus a lot lately because my daughter is a freshman there. But everything is not right in Tiger Town. Someone...
by Joseph McGill | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog Posts
“When I woke up the next morning, it saddened me when I read negative comments about me sleeping in slave cabins. The most hurtful is that it’s from our community. The comments are “Why are you doing this,” “Why don’t you leave slavery in the past,”...
by Joseph McGill | Apr 2, 2016 | Blog Posts
The act of sleeping in an extant slave dwelling is simple. Finding them on the other hand can be more of a challenge. The act of finding them is now made simple because the Slave Dwelling Project now has loyal Ambassadors who can help in locating these extant slave...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 27, 2016 | News
A major grant from the South Carolina Humanities will allow the Slave Dwelling Project to implement a new program titled: Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved. The $8,000 grant will allow the project to assemble living historians who...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 26, 2016 | Blog Posts
The Slave Dwelling Project is an open organization, therefore anyone with the desire to join in on a sleepover in an extant slave dwelling is more than welcome. This openness has yielded a diverse group of people who have included descendants of the enslaved and of...
