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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 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…

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

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.

These slave cabins at McLeod Plantation date to the early 19th century. After emacipation, they still housed blacks, and did so for many years thereafter, til around 1990 (not a misprint).

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.

McLeod Plantation today is an important preserved Gullah/Geechee heritage site that presents in equal part the stories of the whites and blacks who lived there. The main house is not the focal point of the tour. This display which welcomes visitors…

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.

Drayton Hall, located on the Ashley River, is a preserved platation home. They offer a program called "Connections: From Africa to America" before the main guided tour begins, the only direct part of the Drayton Hall tour that addresses slavery.

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.