Getty150
Corporal
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2012
- Location
- Pennsylvania
"CHARLESTON, S.C. — Over the past three years, Joe McGill has slept in almost 40 former slave dwellings in a dozen states, hoping to draw attention to the need to preserve the structures and tell their stories.
"Now he's expanding the effort and working to make the Slave Dwelling Project a nonprofit organization, with plans for a national conference next year. He said paperwork will be filed within the next two weeks to make it official.
"'We tell a lot of our history through the buildings we choose to preserve and restore,' McGill told The Associated Press in an interview at the main house at McLeod Plantation, which has a row of slave cabins. 'If we want to tell the story of America, preserving these slave dwellings is a start to telling that whole story. Sleeping in them helps, but it's time to wake up now. It's time to give this project a purpose.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/08/17/us/ap-us-slave-dwelling-project.html?hp
https://www.facebook.com/TheSlaveDwellingProject
Dave
"Now he's expanding the effort and working to make the Slave Dwelling Project a nonprofit organization, with plans for a national conference next year. He said paperwork will be filed within the next two weeks to make it official.
"'We tell a lot of our history through the buildings we choose to preserve and restore,' McGill told The Associated Press in an interview at the main house at McLeod Plantation, which has a row of slave cabins. 'If we want to tell the story of America, preserving these slave dwellings is a start to telling that whole story. Sleeping in them helps, but it's time to wake up now. It's time to give this project a purpose.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/08/17/us/ap-us-slave-dwelling-project.html?hp
https://www.facebook.com/TheSlaveDwellingProject
Dave
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