by Joseph McGill | Aug 16, 2016 | Blog Posts
I get excited knowing that I can in a very small way ensure that the stories of the enslaved Ancestors are told. Sleeping in slave dwellings with the descendants of the enslaved and enslavers is a very simple act which for the last six years has garnered the much...
by Joseph McGill | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog Posts
“The challenge is that exposure to these formerly ignored facets of American history can be unexpected for some visitors, contradictory to what many of us heard in school, and potentially very uncomfortable to learn. So it’s important to remember there are...
by Joseph McGill | Jul 2, 2016 | Blog Posts
In 1670 Albemarle Point was the site of where the first English settlers successfully settled in the state of South Carolina. These settlers brought enslaved people with them. Today this site is a state park known as Charles Towne Landing. In my six years of spending...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 26, 2016 | Blog Posts
I love it when a good plan comes together. For five consecutive years, I have been going to Holly Springs, Mississippi to participate in the Behind the Big House Tour. My friends in Holly Springs figured it out early that there was more to the story than what was...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog Posts
And just like that, the number of states that I have now spent a night in a slave dwelling is seventeen. On Friday, May 13, 2016, I was joined by Jerome Bias and Jodi Barnes to conduct that sleepover. Dr. Jodi Barnes is Station Archeologist & Research Assistant...
by Joseph McGill | Jun 4, 2016 | Blog Posts
When the Slave Dwelling Project was just an idea, Magnolia Plantation and Gardens had always been there for support. It was this site that inspired me to start the Slave Dwelling Project because of the opportunity to be on a team that inspected the work of the...
by Joseph McGill | May 28, 2016 | Blog Posts
Many years ago, in a ghost hunting workshop in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, I was told that there is more history disseminated about African American history on a ghost tour than on a regular history tour. I had a problem with that then and I have a problem with that now...
by Joseph McGill | May 22, 2016 | News
Monotony can sometimes get boring even when you do something that you love. The Slave Dwelling Project has added a new program to its inventory to help carry out its mission of identifying and assisting property owners, government agencies and...
by Joseph McGill | May 15, 2016 | Blog Posts
In honoring the enslaved Ancestors, there are some collaborations that are destined to happen. One such collaboration is the one that the Slave Dwelling Project has developed with Montpelier, the home of our fourth President James Madison and First Lady Dolly Madison....
by Joseph McGill | May 5, 2016 | Blog Posts
When an article about the Slave Dwelling Project appeared in the October 2013 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine, I was shortly thereafter contacted by Jonathan Williams. He was a Social Studies teacher and Assistant Principal at McMichael High School in Mayodan, North...
