I’m a bit late putting out this “daily” blog, but time got away from me and the amount of work I have to do on this project is immense… and school is a week and a half away. I left Atlanta and headed to Clemson University, where I met with J. Brent Morris, the person …
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Day 11: Bombingham
After checking out of my last motel of the trip, I headed over to Mavis Tire to get a replacement for the blown out tire. I spent a couple hours in their surprisingly large and quiet waiting room reading and preparing for an upcoming interview. The damage wasn’t as bad financially as I thought it …
Day 10: Whitney Plantation Blow Out
After saying goodbye to New Orleans and paying my ridiculously expensive hotel parking, I drove 45 minutes to Whitney Plantation, a truly remarkable place that solely focuses on the experience of the enslaved population as well as teaching about the German Coast Rebellion and the maroons of the region. The audio tour took over an …
Day 9: The Nawlins Tours
Today I participated in two tours, first a canned walking tour of the French Quarter that focused on the very topic of my overall project – Black resistance, both enslaved and free. There were an array of interesting stories, some that I would like to follow up on regarding the maroons who lived on the …
Day 8: Mo’ Montgomery
I had quite a day today. It started at the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. I can say with no hint of exaggeration, it was one of the most impactful experiences of my life, up there with Yad Vashem, the Washington DC Holocaust Museum, and the African American History Museum …
Day 7 – Solitary Travel
It was a long drive from Savannah to Montgomery, but I didn’t encounter any traffic along the way. I would end up hitting several long standstills in Montgomery itself when I was headed to a museum, despite the fact that the business district was all but deserted by the time I got there. Ah, a …
Day 6 – Savannah Doesn’t Smile
In the morning, I visited a number of places in Beaufort that I hadn’t gotten to previously, including the John Mark Verdier House Museum which has a room dedicated to Robert Smalls. Because of the interest in Smalls, but the fact that the museum focuses on mostly other things, they don’t allow people to just …
Day 5: Technical Difficulties
I returned to Beaufort, South Carolina for the first time in six years. The program on Reconstruction that I did through the National Endowment for Humanities in the summer of 2017 was pivotal for me as an educator, changing my perspective in numerous ways and putting me on the path to this very trip. At …
Day 4 of the Agency Exploration
I had to get up at 5:30am to rush over to Drayton Hall, which is about 20 miles outside of Charleston. They are closed on Tuesdays, but the staff is working and they were gracious enough to invite me to come for a private tour. I met with Amber Satterthwaite, the curator of education and …
Adventures in Agency, Day 3
This entry is going to take a massive detour, but it’s worth it. When I initially conceived of my podcast, I was going to be the proverbial obsessive fan who loved a movie, a TV show, or an album from ten, twenty, or more years ago and convinced a key creator to indulge me for …
Fenster on Education 