If the baby nurse felt confident, she might be just that bit more attentive to the baby’s needs. Before you start, clean off the platen -- the glass scanning bed where you'll put the photos -- by wiping it down with a little bit of glass cleaner sprayed on a cloth. Is the other person comfortable sleeping beneath potentially a couple hundred pounds of bed frame, mattress and roommate? Before any sleeping would occur, mistakenly reported as deceased transunion dinner at an offsite eatery was in order. The experience in sleeping on the brick floors gave me thoughts of the brick-makers, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and the ones who cut the trees to create timber for the construction of the house. At many overnight stays, a handful of people join the Slave Dwelling Project team in sleeping in the slave dwelling. Having already spent a night years earlier in the recreated slave cabin on the site did not hurt the chance of having a more robust program there at Woodburn Plantation. Riding home from an overnight stay and day of cooking at Woodburn Plantation, Pendleton, SC, for the third Slave Dwelling Project Living History day, I asked Jerome, who was driving, what stood out for him from the 24-hour experience.


On Friday night, July 15, 2016, I was given an opportunity by the Slave Dwelling Project (Joe McGill) to spend the night at Woodburn House located in Pendleton, South Carolina. The Ward family had held onto three plantations since the Civil War, but sold them in 1905 to Edmund Kaminski, who sold them on to South Carolina native and New York financier, Bernard Baruch in 1906. Also in 1906, Eliza Donaldson sold Friendfield to Baruch. There must have been some plantations and some urban properties where human nature entered into how to dispute with transunion owners and enslaved people interacted. Despite the heat and humidity, most of us were feeling the basement because it would keep us all together and it was a space where we knew the enslaved would have slept. When we all converged at the site, the choices presented to us of where to sleep were two cabins, the basement of the big house or a newly constructed pavilion. "Woodburn is a majestic four-story Upstate plantation house built c. Then there is the observation approach, which offers visitors opportunities to watch re-enactors make bricks, forge cast iron tools, chop wood, carry water, cook meals and all the other trades and occupations required to sustain a major urban residence or a rural plantation.


Restoring a rice plantation was an enormous investment, and the devastated economy of the South discouraged many from trying. Storms during the late 1800’s did their part all along the Low Country coast to ruin the land for rice. What driving laws do you have in your country? However, in 1971, the United Nations voted "to expel" the Republic of China, and instead recognized the Communist government "as the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations." Subsequent attempts by Taiwan to join the United Nations have been unsuccessful. By the time Saturn opened for business, however, it was Saturn Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary charged with pioneering new ideas in everything from styling to service. However, German forces were reinforced as the battle took shape. What’s unique is the way the Slave Dwelling Project and its Living History Days have functioned much like the itinerant poets, musicians and story tellers of Africa and Europe, traveling from place to place and telling stories that the local venue is not yet in a position to tell on its own. The 11-acre site includes Victorian carriage house with Thomas Green Clemson’s traveling coach and a Conestoga wagon, an 1810 log cabin/cookhouse, and a reproduction of the slave/tenant cabin and walking trail to ruins of other farm outbuildings.


Little glimpses of the hard realities of enslaved people’s living conditions contrasts with the fireplaces, window glass, featherbeds, basins of heated water and quickly removed chamber pots found in the "Big Houses." The contrast becomes more stark mistakenly reported as deceased transunion overnighters realize that the comforts of the Big House are made possible for the slave owners by people who sleep on the floor, in the heat or cold, with no conveniences of their own in dwellings like the one they experienced. That said, the lack of these dwellings on the landscape is no excuse for not interpreting the existence of the enslaved at these sites. The Slave Dwelling Project has a mission to find, preserve and interpret extant slave dwellings and to encourage their owners and stewards to use them as a means for visitors to learn more about slavery, the lives of enslaved people, and their contributions to the development of the U.S. The purpose of the initiative is to help fill a void that exists at many historic sites with extant slave dwellings. I respectfully call these men "the construction crew of history." All the laborers who spent countless days constructing the house that became a home to generations of slave owners.