by Joseph McGill | Apr 30, 2016 | Blog Posts
Clemson University has been in the news a lot lately. Their football team playing for the national championship is no small feat. I have been visiting the campus a lot lately because my daughter is a freshman there. But everything is not right in Tiger Town. Someone...
by Joseph McGill | Apr 23, 2016 | Blog Posts
“When I woke up the next morning, it saddened me when I read negative comments about me sleeping in slave cabins. The most hurtful is that it’s from our community. The comments are “Why are you doing this,” “Why don’t you leave slavery in the past,”...
by Joseph McGill | Apr 2, 2016 | Blog Posts
The act of sleeping in an extant slave dwelling is simple. Finding them on the other hand can be more of a challenge. The act of finding them is now made simple because the Slave Dwelling Project now has loyal Ambassadors who can help in locating these extant slave...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 27, 2016 | News
A major grant from the South Carolina Humanities will allow the Slave Dwelling Project to implement a new program titled: Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved. The $8,000 grant will allow the project to assemble living historians who...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 26, 2016 | Blog Posts
The Slave Dwelling Project is an open organization, therefore anyone with the desire to join in on a sleepover in an extant slave dwelling is more than welcome. This openness has yielded a diverse group of people who have included descendants of the enslaved and of...
by Joseph McGill | Feb 6, 2016 | News
SAVE THE DATE: The 3rd Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina, Monday – Wednesday, September 19 – 21, 2016
by Joseph McGill | Jan 14, 2016 | News
I usually publish a blog no less than two weeks after I spend a night in an extant slave dwelling. An ongoing situation in Botetourt County, Virginia dictates that I change my modus operandi. Prinny Anderson, Terry James and I visited this site on Friday, January...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 20, 2015 | Blog Posts
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog Posts
I got excited when I was invited to join a panel at the National Preservation Conference in Washington, DC. The chance to hang out with some of my ex-coworkers of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and continue to network for the Slave Dwelling Project was...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 16, 2015 | Blog Posts
Five years of sleeping in slave dwellings has given the Slave Dwelling Project relevance beyond my wildest dreams. Sleeping in these dwellings as well as sharing the knowledge gained through giving lectures is beginning to strike an equal balance. I did not anticipate...
