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The kitchen of the Aiken-Rhett House sits on the ground floor of the outbuilding that also contains the slave quarters above. This kitchen is where it is believed that the slaves communally took their meals.

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The Aiken-Rhett House Museum has been conserved and run by the Historic Charleston Foundation. It features an impressive back lot where the original slave quarters and outbuildings still exist. These walls surround that lot.

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As an agricultural producer with an Andean Cosmo-vision, Kichwa woman Olga from the community of San Clemente understands that the land and animals that she works with must all live in harmony. Hence the treatments towards the crops and animals and…

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This sign welcomed people to the Historic Africatown Vistor's Center, which was across the street from the Africatown Graveyard.

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

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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…

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At Drayton Hall, this is one of the oldest African American cemeteries still in use; it dates to the 1790s. Here lie at least 40 people, with both marked and unmarked graves. It was dedicated as a memorial in 2010, and the wrought-iron arch was…

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This folklore exhibit, located at the Sendai Mediatheque, showcases the history of natural disaster in Japan as told in folklore style stories.

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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.

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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.
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