by Joseph McGill | Oct 8, 2014 | Blog Posts
Cotton fields were abound on the route that I took to get to the slave dwelling of which I was going to spend the night in Camden, South Carolina. Passing by those fields of cotton made me more aware of the slave labor that was involved historically in its production....
by Joseph McGill | Aug 8, 2014 | Blog Posts
The stay at the Crocket – Miller Slave Quarters in James City, NC was a lesson on how our enslaved ancestors emancipated themselves. The institution of slavery had my ancestors in a situation where they had to acquiesce to the system of lifetime bondage which was...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 21, 2014 | Blog Posts
Not every overnight stay in an extant slave dwelling fits the mold of the intent of the Slave Dwelling Project. There was that overnight stay in a replicated slave cabin at Woodburn Plantation in Pendleton, SC. There was that overnight stay in a freedman’s...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 15, 2014 | Blog Posts
[ngg_images gallery_ids=”24″ gallery_width=”300″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_slideshow”] Yes! Wisconsin had slaves and Chris Lese a high school history teacher at Marquette University High School is conducting the research...
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...
