Saturday, February 11, 2012
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
Black History Month at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens
(Black History Month Program FREE with a $15 garden admission)
10:00am – Colonial Roots: African Americans in the Lowcountry
Michael D. Coker, Assistant to the Director, Old Exchange Building
11:00am – African American Role in the Civil War
Dr. Bernard Powers, History Professor, College of Charleston
1:00pm – Gullah Storytime: Cum Yeddi!
Storyteller Alada Shinault-Small
1:30pm – Slave Dwelling Project
Joseph McGill
2:30pm – Abolitionist Archibald Grimke
Preston Cooley, Magnolia Historian
3:30pm – Plants in African Religious Traditions of the Americas
Dr. John Rashford, Anthropology Professor, College of Charleston
4:30pm – Lowcountry Africana
Toni Carrier, Genealogist and Historian, University of South Florida
Concurrent outdoor demonstrations at the From Slavery to Freedom cabin project will begin at 10:00am and end at 3:00pm. They include:
Gullah Storytime: Cum Yeddi!
Storyteller Alada Shinault-Small
Brick Laying Demonstration
Rodney Prioleau, Master Mason, Fort Sumter National Monument
African American Civil War Re-enactors
54th Massachusetts, Co. I,
Civil War Reenactment Regiment
Cooking with the Massachusetts 54th
Heather Welch, Magnolia’s Food Historian
Blacksmith Demonstration
Joseph “Ronnie” Pringle and Carlton Simmons, Simmons Blacksmith Shop
(Trained by legendary blacksmith Philip Simmons)
Sweetgrass Baskets
Rose Marie Manigault