by Joseph McGill | Mar 15, 2015 | Blog Posts
While I like to think I’m in control, sometimes I have to go where the Slave Dwelling Project takes me. Such was the case with the overnight stay at Old Alabama Town in Montgomery, Alabama. It started with an email and then a phone call from Vanessa Fernandez, a...
by Joseph McGill | Feb 8, 2015 | News
For the last three years, the Slave Dwelling Project has started its season with a sleepover in the slave dwellings at Hopsewee Plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina. That tradition had to be broken when I was presented with two offers that I could not...
by Joseph McGill | Jan 2, 2015 | News
After a series of meetings with Craig Bennett and Lyles McBratney of Bennett Preservation Engineering PC of Charleston, South Carolina, I am beginning to understand all the work that it is going to take to assess 50 extant slave dwellings in the state of South...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 28, 2014 | News
Katherine Ferguson of The ‘Serve Company is now the official videographer for the Slave Dwelling Project. In 2015, Katherine will appear at all of the overnight stays in former slave dwellings in the state of South Carolina to obtain footage. The footage of each...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 22, 2014 | News
Save the Date: Thursday, October 8 – Saturday, October 10, 2015 for the 2nd Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference at the Embassy Suites, 5055 International Blvd., North Charleston, SC. More information will follow as plans continue to be developed.
