September 6, 2010
A Preservationist Lies Down to Stand Up for Saving Slaves’ Homes
Photographs by Corinne Hipp
Joseph McGill (above, in doorway), of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, teaches children and adults about the historical importance of former slave cabins.
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Photographs by Corinne Hipp
Joseph McGill (above, in doorway), of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, teaches children and adults about the historical importance of former slave cabins.
Georgetown, S.C.
Most people wouldn’t be thrilled about the idea of spending a Saturday night in a hot, dark former slave cabin in the middle of a mosquito-infested pine forest.
But most people don’t have the kind of passion for preserving old slave cabins that drives Joseph McGill, a program officer at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Charleston, S.C., office. This spring, he began spending nights in former slave cabins around South Carolina in hopes of bringing
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