by Joseph McGill | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog Posts
For the past six years, on Mondays and Tuesdays, you can find me at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina giving tours of the four restored slave cabins at the site. Most tour participants are White and some express surprise when I express to...
by Joseph McGill | Oct 15, 2018 | Blog Posts
Sometimes the places I lay my head in former slave dwellings throughout this nation is dictated by invitations to participate in conferences. That was the case when in 2017, I accepted invitations from two of my colleagues to participate on panels at the American...
by Joseph McGill | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog Posts
In uncovering the footprints of the chattel slavery that existed in this nation, several dots are connected by the Slave Dwelling Project in interesting ways. While sleeping is a very simple concept, I’ve spent nights at Monticello and Poplar Forest, both of which...
by Joseph McGill | Sep 9, 2018 | Blog Posts
An idea is just that, an idea, if you fail to set into motion the steps necessary to make that idea a reality. In 2010 the Slave Dwelling Project was just a crazy idea in my head until I had my first sleepover alone in a slave cabin at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens...
by Joseph McGill | Aug 19, 2018 | Blog Posts
The footprints of the chattel slavery that once gripped this nation can be found in many states. In southern states, the built environment of slavery exists in many structures erected prior to 1860. These antebellum structures were either built by the enslaved, or...
