ROSWELL, Ga. — The Slave Dwelling Project will land in Roswell for a three-part series to hold a conversation, share stories of people who lived on the city’s land, built it, maintained its sites, and what this means to American history and life experiences today.
The Slave Dwelling Project is a nonprofit that works to address the legacies of slavery through education and preservation. The series will offer information on the untold narratives lingering behind historic structures in Roswell.
The first event, slated for March 15 at 6 p.m. at Mimosa Hall, will be a lecture and author discussion with Joseph McGill and Herb Frazier, authors of “Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery.”
The book is a personal account of one man’s groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in the countless, oft-overlooked, former slave dwellings that still stand across the country, the history behind those sites, and how he has used the experiences to shed light on larger issues of race in America.
On March 16 from 12:30 to 4 p.m. at Bulloch Hall, The Slave Dwelling Project will present the lives and histories of enslaved people at Bulloch Hall through its “Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved” program. There will be storytelling, artisan demonstrations, hearth and open-fire cooking and dynamic presentations.
Later that evening, the nonprofit will present a Campfire Conversation at 6 p.m. at Bulloch Hall to dive further into the history, the remaining legacy of slavery and racial reconciliation.
The series is open and free to the public, though registration is required for the book discussion and Campfire Conversation. For more information, visit www.Roswell365.com.
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