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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 the West, where people are often surprised to learn that
such structures exist. Events and gatherings are arranged around
these overnight stays, and it provides a unique way to understand
the often otherwise obscured and distorted history of slavery. The
project has inspired difficult conversations about race in
communities from South Carolina to Alabama to Texas to Minnesota to
New York, and all over the United States. Sleeping with the
Ancestors focuses on all of the key sites McGill has visited in his
ongoing project and digs deeper into the actual history of each
location, using McGill's own experience and conversations with the
community to enhance those original stories. Altogether, McGill and
co-author Herb Frazier give readers an important unexpected
emersion into the history of slavery, and especially the obscured
and ignored aspects of that history.
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