by Joseph McGill | Jun 15, 2014 | News
Question: Who would label oneself a wretch? Answer: John Newton, the writer of the song “Amazing Grace”, English poet, clergyman and former captain of a slave ship. Today I had the privilege to participate in “Remembrance”. This annual event collectively honors the...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 8, 2014 | Blog Posts
Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and now Tennessee are the states of which I have spent at least one night in an extant slave dwelling. To make up for lost time,...
by Joseph McGill | May 31, 2014 | Blog Posts
[ngg_images gallery_ids=”20″ gallery_width=”300″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow”] With the state of Virginia having a history so rooted in slavery, it is expected that it should have a representative stock of extant...
by Joseph McGill | May 24, 2014 | Blog Posts
With stays at Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, the Hall House Kitchen and Slave Dwelling in Salisbury and Stagville in Durham, the state of North Carolina is beginning to be well represented in the number of places I’ve spent nights in extant slave dwellings. The...
by Joseph McGill | May 16, 2014 | Blog Posts
After spending nights in fifty four extant slave dwellings in twelves states over the past four years, one would think that I would have slept at a National Park Service site by now. Until I got the invitation from Cane River Creole National Historic Park that was not...
