by Joseph McGill | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog Posts
In amassing 19 states and the District of Columbia as places where members of the Slave Dwelling Project have spent nights at historic sites, the state of Florida proved to be elusive. My initial request to spend a night at Kingsley Plantation, a National Park Service...
by Joseph McGill | May 27, 2018 | Blog Posts
For unknown reasons, the Slave Dwelling Project has driven me to love archaeologists. Maybe it’s their scientific approach to proving the existence of the enslaved Ancestors, or maybe it’s the way they eliminate the excuse for historic sites not to interpret slavery...
by Joseph McGill | May 20, 2018 | Blog Posts
The Slave Dwelling Project has many sleepovers at historic sites where people were enslaved in the state of North Carolina. Three of those sleepovers are the result of our relationship with Jonathan Williams, Assistant Principal, Walkertown High School – Walkertown,...
by Joseph McGill | May 6, 2018 | Blog Posts
Institutions of higher learning are highly competitive. They align themselves in divisions and conferences to highlight that competitiveness in sports and other activities. They tout their prowess in academics to impress potential students, grants, and donations. More...
by Joseph McGill | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog Posts
It is seldom that I get to scout a site before I perform a sleepover. Last year Jerome Bias, our lead cook for the living historian program, and I visited Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas. We had just participated in a program titled Behind the Big...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 18, 2018 | Blog Posts
Historic buildings make great classrooms. Many organized groups have joined members of the Slave Dwelling Project in antebellum slave dwellings that have been preserved. A group from Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, FL joined us at Old Alabama Town in...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 10, 2018 | Blog Posts
One sign of success is an invitation to come back to perform the service for which you were initially invited. Hampton Plantation in Charleston County, SC gave the Slave Dwelling Project that opportunity on Saturday, February 24, 2018. In fact, this would be the third...
by Joseph McGill | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog Posts
The Slave Dwelling Project is coming to you with much-needed improvements in 2018. Board members and volunteers are working diligently behind the scenes to ensure efficiency, fiscal responsibility and, quality programs. These needed improvements in no way lessen our...
by Joseph McGill | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog Posts
Sometimes some things take persistence. About two years ago, I got an email from Tim Talbott, Director of Education, Interpretation, Visitor Services & Collections at Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Tim was interested in...
by Joseph McGill | Nov 25, 2017 | Blog Posts
My host on this journey, labeled me a public historian, so I had to seek the meaning of that term. “Although public historians can sometimes be teachers, public history is usually defined as history beyond the walls of the traditional classroom.” As defined, I will...
