by Joseph McGill | Mar 11, 2019 | Blog Posts
The year 2018 was great for the Slave Dwelling Project. I got to travel more with living historians as we traversed this nation visiting historic sites while chasing the footprints of slavery. Our applied method of sleeping in slave dwellings is now enhanced by living...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 2, 2018 | Blog Posts
Historic sites have the potential to be classrooms. For these sites to reach that potential, it takes creative thinking and people and entities interested in using these historic places in creative ways. A museum or historic home which allows people to touch things is...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 18, 2018 | Blog Posts
2011, the second year of the Slave Dwelling Project found me traveling to more out of state historic sites to sleep in the spaces that the enslaved Ancestors once inhabited. People began to realize that I wasn’t going away that easily. The footprints of slavery were...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 13, 2018 | Conference
If you did not attend the 5th Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference, it is imperative that you click on the link to find out what you missed. You may want to print the content. There may come a time in the future when this information may cease to exist...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog Posts
If ever you entertain the thought of driving from Charleston, South Carolina to Princeton, NJ alone, I advise that you do not do so. I took on that task, I was successful, but that is something that I will not do again. That statement speaks highly of my quest to...