by Joseph McGill | Jul 14, 2019 | Blog Posts
Ask some folks if they have visited a plantation before and they may say no. Ask those same people if they have visited Mount Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier, Highlands, White Haven or the Hermitage and they may say yes. Those places are homes of slave-owning...
by Joseph McGill | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog Posts
Stratford Hall 438 Great House Road, Stratford, Virginia Sometimes opposites attract. Years ago, I had the pleasure of spending a night at the Lee-Fendall House Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. The Lee-Fendall House was the home of Major-General Henry “Light-Horse...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 25, 2019 | Blog Posts
I get the most push back from people when I talk about slavery in northern states. In those states, African American history is more than just the Underground Railroad or the northern army that helped to rid this country of slavery during the Civil War. There are...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 15, 2019 | Blog Posts
Kennedy Farm, 2406 Chestnut Grove Road, Chestnut Grove Road, Sharpsburg, MD 21782 Sometimes fate takes over and you have too just let things happen. If I recall correctly, while attending kindergarten through twelfth grades, classes, in general, were not things I...
by Joseph McGill | May 22, 2019 | Blog Posts
The idea of spending nights in slave dwellings is not an easy concept for some. Even today there is often push back to the Slave Dwelling Project’s effort to honor the enslaved Ancestors. There are those among us who would much rather have the subject of slavery go...
by Joseph McGill | May 18, 2019 | Blog Posts
Wait for it. Wait for it. Twelve of our former Presidents enslaved people. Until spending a night at Mount Vernon, members of the Slave Dwelling Project had slept at the homes of Presidents Andrew Jackson, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and James K. Polk in that...
