The Dillon County Theatre invites the public to join them on February 6 at 7:00 p.m. for a free presentation by Herb Frazier and Joseph McGill, Jr. on their book “Sleeping With The Ancestors: How I Followed The Footprints of Slavery.”
Herb Frazier is a Charleston, South Carolina-based writer. He is a senior editor for the Charleston City Paper, and the former marketing director at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston. Before he joined Magnolia, Frazier edited and reported for five daily newspapers in the South, including his hometown paper, The Post and Courier. Frazier’s latest book, “Sleeping With The Ancestors: How I Followed The Footprints of Slavery,” is a collaboration with Joseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project. Herb’s forthcoming book, “Crossing the Sea on a Sacred Song,” tells the story of an ancient funeral song that links a Georgia family with a woman in Sierra Leone.
Joseph McGill, Jr., is the founder of the Slave Dwelling Project in Charleston, SC and a former history consultant for Magnolia Plantation in Charleston, S.C. By arranging for people to sleep in extant slave dwellings, the Slave Dwelling Project has brought much-needed attention to these often-neglected structures that are vitally important in the American built environment…