by Joseph McGill | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog Posts
My role at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, SC, has changed. I am now the History and Culture Coordinator on a full-time basis. Duties include ensuring that the stories of the people who were enslaved at Magnolia Plantation are interpreted...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 2, 2020 | Blog Posts
2020 and I still find myself chasing the footprints of slavery. What started ten years ago as a simple quest to spend one night in a slave dwelling has transformed into the Slave Dwelling Project. Ten years and 25 states later, I’m still finding and...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 24, 2019 | Blog Posts
People often ask me if I am a college professor or schoolteacher. It must be my delivery when I present to audiences and my experience of being a Park Ranger for the National Park Service. I’m neither schoolteacher nor professor; I can’t say that being one...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 8, 2019 | Blog Posts
Ben Franklin, William Penn, and Quakers enslaved people. That statement is shocking to some, especially northerners, because, in their shocked and misinformed minds, chattel slavery was strictly a southern thing. Yes, it did take a Civil War and the...
by Joseph McGill | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog Posts
On Monday and Tuesday of each week, you can find me at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina. I take pride in giving the tour titled, From Slavery to Freedom. The opportunity to disseminate the history of the enslaved people at...
by Joseph McGill | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog Posts
Sleep, a condition of body and mind which recurs for several hours every night. Sleeping is an action that everyone placed on God’s green earth can do. Sleeping denotes a time of peace and serenity, but how could those qualities be found in a...
