The personal account of one man's gro undbreaking project to sleep overnight in the countless oft-overlooked for mer slave dwellings that still stand across the country\, the fascinating history behind those sites\, and how he has used the experiences to shed l ight on larger issues of race in America.
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Prior to his current position as founder of the Slav e Dwelling Project\, \;Joseph McGill \;was a fiel d officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is the form er executive director of the African American Museum in Cedar Rapids\, Iow a and the former director of history and culture at Penn Center\, St. Hele na Island\, South Carolina. McGill was also a park ranger at Fort Sumter. He appears in the book "Confederates in the Attic" by Tony Horwitz. He is also a member of the South Carolina Humanities Council Speakers Bureau and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional English from South Caroli na State University. \;
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For more information about the Slave Dwelling Project\, visit https://slavedwellingproject.org/\n
Herb Frazier is a Charleston\, South Carolina-base d writer. He&rsquo\;s the special projects editor for the \;Charleston City Paper and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and G ardens in \;Charleston. Before he joined Magnolia\, Frazier edited and reported for five daily newspapers in \;the South\, including his hom etown paper\, The Post and Courier. \;The South Carolina Press Associa tion named him a Journalist of the Year. He has taught \;news writing as a visiting lecturer at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is a forme r Michigan \;Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He studi ed journalism at the University of \;South Carolina.
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\nAfter leaving daily j ournalism in 2006\, Frazier led journalism workshops in Sierra Leone\,&nbs p\;Zambia\, Ghana\, Suriname\, Guyana\, and The Gambia for the U.S. govern ment and a Washington\, D.C.-based journalism foundation. \;His intern ational reporting experience includes West Germany during the fall of the Berlin \;Wall and humanitarian relief efforts in Bosnia and Rwanda dur ing its post-genocide period. He also \;reported on the military confl ict in Sierra Leone. Frazier has written about the historical and \;cu ltural ties between West Africa and the Gullah Geechee people of coastal S outh Carolina and \;Georgia. He formerly represented South Carolina on the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage \;Corridor Commission\, created by the U.S. Congress in 2006.
\nHe is the author of "Behind God&rsqu o\;s Back: Gullah Memories." He is a co-author of "We Are \;Charleston : Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel with Marjory Wentworth and Dr. Ber nard \;Powers Jr." Frazier is also the co-editor of "Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth\, South Carolina \;Writers and Poets Examine Americ an Racism." \;
\nLopez D. Matthews Jr.\, Ph.D.\ , is the State Archivist and Public Records Administrator for the District of Columbia. In this capacity\, he serves as the Historian of the Distric t of Columbia\, Chair of the D.C. Historical Records Advisory Board\, and Director of the DC Office of Public Records and Archives. A native of Balt imore Maryland\, he earned a BS in History from Coppin State University in 2004. He then earned a master&rsquo\;s degree in Public History and Archi val Administration from Howard University in 2006 and a Ph.D. in United St ates History from Howard University in 2009.
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Currently\, he is a member of the Council of State Archivists and an Executive Council Memb er of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He has published several articles and is the author of Howard University i n the World Wars: Men and Women Serving the Nation. He is the host of In R etrospect and Prospect where he interviews practitioners about African Ame rican history projects for ASALH TV. In 2020\, he became a Senior Advisor to the US Truth\, Healing\, and Transformation Leadership Group.
\n< em>The Echoes of the Enslaved events are held in partnership with The Slav e Dwelling Project\, a non-profit whose vision is to encourage a &ldquo\;m ore truthful and inclusive narrative of the history of the nation that hon ors the contributions of all our people." Joseph McGill\, founder of \ ;The Slave Dwelling Project\, has taken his message of historic preservati on and heritage to over 23 states and Washington\, D.C.\, ensuring that th e brave stories of enslaved families will be shared with future generation s. Each year\, Mr. McGill leads facilitated conversation circles at Echoes of the Enslaved\, where participants discuss the legacies of slavery in t his nation.
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