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Cultural Conversation: Sleeping With The Ancestors

How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery

What happens when a historic preservationist decides to sleep in slave cabins across the United States? Join South Carolinian authors Joe McGill, Jr. and Herb Frazier as they discuss the journey!

Joseph McGill, Jr. a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea that was sparked and first developed in 1999. Since founding the project, McGill has been touring the country, spending the night in former slave dwellings throughout the South, but also the North and West, where people are often surprised to learn that such structures still exist.  Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery, is a collaboration with Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier, a Charleston, South Carolina-based writer. Herb’s forthcoming book, Crossing the Sea on a Sacred Song, tells the story of an African funeral song that links a Georgia family with a woman in Sierra Leone.

This event will be live streamed on Face Book and YouTube.

About the African American Research Library and Cultural Center 

The Broward County African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) is located in the Sistrunk community, one of the oldest historically Black communities named for one of Fort Lauderdale’s first Black physicians. Opening to the public on October 26, 2002, AARLCC became the third public library of its kind in the United States dedicated to the study of Black history and culture. The 60,000 square-foot Center serves as a repository of materials related to the local, national, and international voices of the African diaspora with more than 85,000 books, manuscripts, artifacts, framed art, print, photography, audiovisual, and documents held in our Adult Services Section and Special Collections. The Youth Services Section features a special collection of Coretta Scott King Award books and the Ashley Bryan Art Collection from illustrators of African Descent. AARLCC also features a 5,000 sq. ft. museum, a 300-seat state-of-the-art theatre, and a Computer Training Center.

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