These everyday objects, a fork and a “jack” game-piece, were excavated from the site of a home occupied by a family of freed persons at Dill Sanctuary on James Island, near Charleston.
Exhibit Menu
- Freedoms Gained: Emancipation in 1865
- Broken Promises: The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
- Outspoken Demands for Accountability and Increasing Black Political Representation
- Planter Pleas for Return of Formerly Enslaved Persons
- Erastus W. Everson Scrapbook: Diary of a Freedmen’s Bureau Agent
- Laboring on a Rice Farm After Emancipation
- Photograph of a Woman Gesturing in Front of a Rice Granary, Wantoot plantation
- Perpetual Enslavement: Laboring on a Cotton Farm After Emancipation
- Artifacts excavated from land occupied by freed persons at Stono Plantation.
- Unequal Shares: Taking All the Risk with No Promise of Reward
- Give and Take: Contractual Commodities
- Holding on to Loved Ones: A Mother’s Contract
- No Security: Families Struggle to Stay Together
- The Constitutional Convention of 1868
- The South Carolina Constitution of 1868
- Faces of the “Radical” Republicans
- Black Men Begin Voting
- Freedom to Learn: The Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunities
- The Avery Normal Institute
- John L. Dart and the Charleston Industrial Institute
- Churches Bolster Educational Opportunities
- “She is Much Destroyed”: Searching for Lost Loved Ones
- Fortifying Families and Loved Ones
- “Under the Protection of Almighty God”: Marriage During Reconstruction
- Freedom to Worship
- Freedom to Make a Living: The Freedman’s Savings and Trust
- Defining A Home After Emancipation
- Artifacts excavated from land occupied by freed persons
- Lucretia Stewart’s Family Record
- Draconian Labor Contracts Become Increasingly Common
- The Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Risky Labor Contracts Proliferate
- Tools excavated from land occupied by freed persons
- Combahee Rice Field Workers Organize
- Racial Violence Escalates at the Twilight of Reconstruction
- Performing “Essential Duties for Truth and Justice”
- The Cainhoy Riot of 1876
- “Redemption” Propaganda at the Polls
- The Liberian Exodus
- Freedoms Lost: The Constitutional Convention of 1895
- Conclusion: Equity, Justice, and Knowledge
- Expanding Knowledge and Awareness: A Preliminary Reading List
