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Drayton Hall celebrates Black History Month
Drayton Hall Celebrates Black History Month
Featuring Connections: From Africa to America
Unscripted and Interactive
Charleston, South Carolina, January 20, 2013 — To celebrate Black History Month, Drayton Hall will be featuring its popular Connections: From Africa to America interactive presentation, which traces the journey of enslaved Africans to the new world and through slavery and emancipation. Also, house tours throughout the month of February will include an emphasis on the plantation’s African American history, augmented with new interpretive panels about the enslaved: Quash, a carpenter, and George, the right-hand man to Charles Drayton. Visitors will also discover A Sacred Place, one of the oldest documented African American cemeteries in the nation still in use.
Connections: From Africa to America
Presented three times daily Monday through Saturday at 10:45am, 12:45pm, and 2:45pm, and twice daily on Sunday at 12:45 and 2:45, this 45-minute program uses maps, historic documents, and artifacts to trace the story of enslaved Africans through emancipation, and into the 20th century. Participants can expect to read through slave lists and plantation records describing a day's work in the rice fields and to hear about the skills of enslaved people that helped make the plantation prosper.
Drayton Hall House Tours
Every Drayton Hall House Tour is unique because each one is unscripted: Drayton Hall’s professional interpreters not only design their own program after extensive research and training, they continue to enrich their presentations through the results of Drayton Hall’s ongoing research into African American history and culture.
The Voices of Drayton Hall Interactive Tour on DVD
A companion piece to Drayton Hall’s professionally guided house tour, this self-directed, interactive tour on DVD lets visitors dig deeper into a favorite topic or skip ahead at any point during the tour. Generations of Drayton Hall descendants, both white and black, offer their perspectives on life at Drayton Hall and the impact of change on its inhabitants. Visitors will also discover never-before-seen images and documents from Drayton Hall’s archives. Free DVD rental with admission; produced by The History Channel and winner of a Historic Preservation Tourism Award.
A Sacred Place: The African American Cemetery
Dating back to the 18th century, this is one of the oldest documented African American cemeteries in the nation still in use. The final resting place of at least 40 individuals, enslaved and free, recent research shows that the burial grounds extend beyond the boundaries of the present day site and that there are likely hundreds more buried here. On October 9, 2010, the African American Memorial, inspired by famed Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons and crafted by his protégés, was dedicated at the entrance to the cemetery, an enduring tribute to the people of African descent who have contributed to Drayton Hall from its earliest inception.
The Drayton Hall Museum Shop
Housed in a wood frame structure built in the late 1800s and representative of the types of houses in which many African American families lived after the Civil War, the Museum Shop is one of the site’s two surviving historic outbuildings. Originally a two-room structure, the house was enlarged with a shed-roof addition at the rear. The partition that divided the original two rooms has long since been removed, but remnants of the central brick fireplace are seen in the floor of the main room. Visitors can learn more about their discoveries — and save 15% throughout the month of February — through the shop’s excellent selection of books on African American history and culture. There is no sales tax and all proceeds benefit Drayton Hall’s preservation efforts.
Drayton Hall Celebrates Black History Month
Featuring Connections: From Africa to America
Unscripted and Interactive
Charleston, South Carolina, January 20, 2013 — To celebrate Black History Month, Drayton Hall will be featuring its popular Connections: From Africa to America interactive presentation, which traces the journey of enslaved Africans to the new world and through slavery and emancipation. Also, house tours throughout the month of February will include an emphasis on the plantation’s African American history, augmented with new interpretive panels about the enslaved: Quash, a carpenter, and George, the right-hand man to Charles Drayton. Visitors will also discover A Sacred Place, one of the oldest documented African American cemeteries in the nation still in use.
Connections: From Africa to America
Presented three times daily Monday through Saturday at 10:45am, 12:45pm, and 2:45pm, and twice daily on Sunday at 12:45 and 2:45, this 45-minute program uses maps, historic documents, and artifacts to trace the story of enslaved Africans through emancipation, and into the 20th century. Participants can expect to read through slave lists and plantation records describing a day's work in the rice fields and to hear about the skills of enslaved people that helped make the plantation prosper.
Drayton Hall House Tours
Every Drayton Hall House Tour is unique because each one is unscripted: Drayton Hall’s professional interpreters not only design their own program after extensive research and training, they continue to enrich their presentations through the results of Drayton Hall’s ongoing research into African American history and culture.
The Voices of Drayton Hall Interactive Tour on DVD
A companion piece to Drayton Hall’s professionally guided house tour, this self-directed, interactive tour on DVD lets visitors dig deeper into a favorite topic or skip ahead at any point during the tour. Generations of Drayton Hall descendants, both white and black, offer their perspectives on life at Drayton Hall and the impact of change on its inhabitants. Visitors will also discover never-before-seen images and documents from Drayton Hall’s archives. Free DVD rental with admission; produced by The History Channel and winner of a Historic Preservation Tourism Award.
A Sacred Place: The African American Cemetery
Dating back to the 18th century, this is one of the oldest documented African American cemeteries in the nation still in use. The final resting place of at least 40 individuals, enslaved and free, recent research shows that the burial grounds extend beyond the boundaries of the present day site and that there are likely hundreds more buried here. On October 9, 2010, the African American Memorial, inspired by famed Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons and crafted by his protégés, was dedicated at the entrance to the cemetery, an enduring tribute to the people of African descent who have contributed to Drayton Hall from its earliest inception.
The Drayton Hall Museum Shop
Housed in a wood frame structure built in the late 1800s and representative of the types of houses in which many African American families lived after the Civil War, the Museum Shop is one of the site’s two surviving historic outbuildings. Originally a two-room structure, the house was enlarged with a shed-roof addition at the rear. The partition that divided the original two rooms has long since been removed, but remnants of the central brick fireplace are seen in the floor of the main room. Visitors can learn more about their discoveries — and save 15% throughout the month of February — through the shop’s excellent selection of books on African American history and culture. There is no sales tax and all proceeds benefit Drayton Hall’s preservation efforts.