Saturday, September 4, 2010

Hampton National Historic Site | Towson, MD

October 22, 2009 by lindsey  
Filed under Baltimore, Historical Sites

Hampton Mansion (main house), Exterior View Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Maryland preserves a remnant of a vast 18th-century estate, including a Georgian manor house, gardens, grounds, and the original stone slave quarters. Owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations, the estate’s mansion was the largest private home in America when it was [...]

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The Gullah/Geechee, Beaufort, SC

May 25, 2008 by lindsey  
Filed under Beaufort

The Gullah/Geechee are African Americans who lived in the Low Country region of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands. Known for preserving more of their African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other African American community in the U.S,  they are  the descendants of the slaves who worked [...]

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