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The proximity of the main house and the slave cabins are evident here.

This placard memorializes General WilliamTecumseh Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15, which would eventually become known as the "Forty Acres and a Mule" promise. In January 1865, Sherman met with 20 black ministers at his headquarters, now known…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

This Gothic revival Savannah mansion was the home of Charles Green, who, rather than have his house destroyed in the Civil War, allowed Gen. Sherman to make it his headquarters. Green was a cotton and ship merchant. He would have owned slaves, and…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The Mercer Williams, more recently made famous as the house in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was owned by John Williams, who restored over 50 houses in the Savannah area. Today the house offers guided tours.

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The African American Family Monument was dedicated in 2002, and stands on River Street. It has an inscription by Maya Angelou, however, the last line in that inscription was not written by Angelou herself. There was a lot of controversy about this…

This project was funded by Bernard and Anne Spitzer Travel Fellowship for research projects involving travel abroad and incorporating the study of architecture, landscape architecture, or urbanism.

The monument depicts hands in shackles, like the shackles of slavery that African Americans have risen from.