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Joseph McGill Jr. coming to Natchez for two-day program on slave dwellings

Joseph McGill Jr., founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project

NATCHEZ, Miss. -- Joseph McGill Jr., a renowned authority on slave dwellings, is coming to Natchez for a two-day program that will feature a lecture and a living history campfire conversation.

The lecture, which is titled, “The Education Value of Sleeping in Slave Dwellings: Mississippi Edition,” will be presented at 6 p.m. Friday, April 14 at Historic Natchez Foundation. The campfire conversation will be held at 6 p.m., April 15 at the Auburn slave quarters.

Both events are free and open to the public. They are part of McGill’s nationally acclaimed Slave Dwelling Project. The two-day program is being hosted by Historic Natchez Foundation, Natchez National Historical Park, and Our Restoration Nation.

McGill is a history consultant for Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, S.C., and the founder and director of the Slave Dwelling Project. Through the Slave Dwelling Project, he has arranged for people to “sleep in extant slave dwellings,” providing experiences that “brought much needed attention to these often-neglected structures that are vitally important to the American built environment,” McGill said in a biographical sketch.

Since 2018, McGill has conducted more than 250 overnights in about 100 different sites in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

As a field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, McGill worked to revitalize the Sweet Auburn commercial district in Atlanta, Ga., and to develop a management plan for the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area.

McGill is a former executive director of the African American Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a former director of history and culture at Penn Center, St. Helena Island, South Carolina. He has also served as a National Park Service park ranger at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston.

McGill holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional English from South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

McGill’s work is recognized by authors and historians. He is featured in the books “Confederates in the Attic” by Tony Horwitz and “Behind the Big House” by Jodi Skipper.

Historic Natchez Foundation is located at 108 S. Commerce St. and Auburn is at 400 Duncan Avenue, both in Natchez. Parking is in the rear of Auburn, which is accessed from the second road on the right inside the Duncan Park Gate.

For more information, contact Carter Burns at Historic Natchez Foundation: Call 601-442-2500 or send email to carterburns@natchez.org. Information about the Slave Dwelling Project can be found at https://slavedwellingproject.org/

[michellinehall]

Welcome to 2020 where historic dwellings still offer timeless charm. Working on the road with the @blackwaterbranding team is always a blast. These photos are from a former slave dwelling turned retreat cottage. * * * #historichomes #southernliving #plantation #cottage #historichome #virginia #interiordesign #construction #commercialphotography #interiordesign #published #canon #stratfordhall #slavedwellingproject #michellinephoto (at Stratford Hall Plantation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B62cxXdlKJr/?igshid=1wq507c5enh6z

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Last Call for Call for Papers due May 1! http://slavedwellingproject.org/sdp-conference-2018-call-for-papers/ #slavedwellingproject

[honeychildoz]

My #slavedwellingproject shirt came today! So excited to wear it and have some great conversations about History and how tomorrow is going to be better for EVERYONE! PLEASE support this amazing American History preservation society! #goodnewdays #history #slavedwelling #equalityforall #americanhistory #preservation #speakingfortheoneswhocant #ancestors #sowecandobetter

[backyard-pilgrim]

Slave Dwelling Project - evening by the fire in a slave cabin. #slavedwellingproject #johndickinson #johndickinsonplantation (at John Dickinson Plantation)

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Photo by @jaheezus MONUMENTS - Former Slave Cabin Joseph McGill (@slavedwellingproject ), a preservationist and plantation museum docent from Charleston, South Carolina, visits this slave cabin in Alabama's Marengo County after spending the night in another nearby slave cabin behind Magnolia Grove manor in Greensboro, AL, on Thursday, May 25, 2017, in #MarengoCounty , #Alabama. McGill passed through the area as part of his mission to sleep a night in every extant slave quarters in the country. Since he started the Slave Dwelling Project seven years ago, he has slept in 96. #preservation #plantation #SlaveDwellingProject #JosephMcGill http://ift.tt/2uyKVvR

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Photo by @jaheezus Afriye We-kandodis, who dressed her self as a person enslaved, stirs after spending the night in a slave cabin behind Magnolia Grove manor as part of Joseph McGill's Slave Dwelling Project on Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Greensboro, #Alabama. We-kandodis, from #Selma, Alabama, is founder of By the River Center for Humanity, an organization that takes participants through re-enactments of slavery. @slavedwellingproject #slavedwellingproject #enlaved by never #slaves #slavery #slavecabin http://ift.tt/2v0r22q