Seashore Farmers' Lodge No. 767, located at corner of Sol Legare Rd and Old Sol Legare Rd on
operated as a museum and cultural center. Photo by Ammodramus taken 14 September 2011
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 150th Anniversary Celebration of The Battle of Sol Legare and The Battle of Battery Wagner at Seashore Farmers’ Lodge Museum and Cultural Center at Sol Legare
JULY 15–JULY 16, 2013 at 1840 Sol Legare Road Charleston, SC
Two years following a massive restoration and in conjunction with the encampment reenactment of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment Co. I in anticipation of their first fight at Battle of Ft. Wagner (c. 1863), The Seashore Farmers’ Lodge Museum and Cultural Center invites visitors to join us and view the exhibits, relics and progress on this once dilapidated, century-old structure.
July 15th: Dusk
Outdoor viewing of the movie “Glory” - Campfire and Weenie Roast, living history, viewing of Glory
July 16th: 10 AM until 5 PM
The all-day event will run from 10-5 and feature a series of reenactments, food and skits; the presentation of an award of merit Ms. Georgette Mayo of the Confederation of SC Local Historical Societies and The Avery Center; and the unveiling of a period piece privy – constructed as a community project by Eagle Scout, Joel Milliken and his troop.
July 14-July 21:
The Seashore Farmers’ Lodge will be opened to this visiting from all over to hold encampments. For more information on reservations and dates scheduled, please email or call us.
150 years ago, the area now known as The Sol-Legare Community was actually a plantation held by the Solomon Legare Family of Charleston. During the Civil War, (1861-1865) Solomon Legare’s plantation was the site of several camps, artillery positions, and battles. On July 16, 1863, one of America’s first African American Army Regiments organized in the North and was led by Union General Alfred Terry. During the Battle of Sol-Legare, the troops bravely risked their lives to win the freedom of enslaved Africans who were held in bondage there and on numerous plantations throughout the south – 14 men lost their lives, 17 wounded, and 13 missing. The island was a center point to many battles fought in the area and at one point housed 5200 Federal troops. Additionally, the famed 54th Massachusetts Regiment camped on grounds near the Lodge prior to marching down Old Sol-Legare Road to fight at Battery Wagner. The Sol-Legare area is rich with Civil War history and its historical happenings.
The museum opened on April 16, 2011 and focuses on Coastal African American communities at the turn of the century ranging from The Civil War to present. The museum will feature several living history presentations, encampments and be open to the public for the viewing of artifacts. The soldiers will be dressed in period clothing and will conduct several skits and interactive sessions with visitors. The women of the 54th Massachusetts will be on hand as well, dressed in period clothing and hosting stories.
The museum is located off of Folly Road down Sol Legare Road on the right. For more information, please call Hope Brown at 843.437.1259, email: sollegare@gmail.com, or visit our website at sollegare.shutterfly.com.
Joseph McGill, Jr, of The Slave Dwelling Project, will be this year's special guest at the 9th Annual African American Family History Workshop sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Spartanburg Community College Student Life organization on February 1st and 2nd.
Everyone is being encouraged to register by January 25th.
To register: Call (864) 439-8716 or email aafhw@yahoo.com
Find class descriptions & more at
Facebook: African American Family History Workshop
This event is free and open to the public. A free lunch will also be provided.
Please make note that on Friday everyone meet at the Spartanburg County Library at 7 pm and on Saturday at 8:30 am at the Tyger River Campus. See the flyer below for complete details.
To learn more about the 2013 schedule for The Slave Dwelling Project, see Joseph McGill, Jr, shares The Slave Dwelling Project stays in 2013.
To learn more about the 2013 schedule for The Slave Dwelling Project, see Joseph McGill, Jr, shares The Slave Dwelling Project stays in 2013.
"We must use time creatively." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Front Room:
Front Room Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HABS [or HAER or HALS],
Reproduction number [e.g., "HABS ILL, 16-CHIG, 33-2 "] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ga/ga0200/ga0206/photos/057123pv.jpg (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
The 1940 Census lists the Martin family with Martin's maternal grandmother living with them.
"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K752-8QR : accessed
15 Jan 2013), Martin L King in household of Marvin L King, Ward 5, Atlanta, Atlanta City,
Fulton, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 160-241, sheet 13B, family 268,
NARA digital publication T627, roll 733.
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't
see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
INTERIOR, STAIRCASE, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home,
501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/ga/ga0200/ga0206/photos/057124pv.jpg |
Martin Luther King, Jr in 1964. Source: Wikipedia Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c26559 |
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December 4, 2012 marked the two year anniversary of About Our Freedom. This was the place I created to reflect upon the freedom of African Americans and whether we have embraced freedom to the fullest extent. I have learned firsthand that we need not be held hostage by the false percepts in the minds of others; we can freely plot our course past them.
In the months leading up to my decision to create this blog, I was deep within my own family history research. One person asked me this question which I answered boldly:
"So, you are PROUD of your race?"
I have analyzed that question countless times. The word race was never one that invoked the kind of feelings like the term I use for my people: family (or heritage). My ancestors come in different colors. I have applied the same efforts in identifying each one. There are some of every shade in my family today. They are mostly lawyers, doctors, judges, teachers, and other professions. They love each other, and they love to serve each other.
My concept of family goes beyond this to include every person of the human family on the face of this earth without regard to color, religion, or ethnicity, but I realize the question asked of me pertained to my being an African American. There is implied an element of surprise or curiosity that I would have some feelings other than shame.
Unfortunately, these experiences are not few or far between, and they serve a purpose for me. Of course, the purpose for me is not to attempt to reason or to try to persuade the heart or mind of another. Paradigm shifts are personal, and challenges will only cause you to be perceived as the one who brings offense.
No, this question has empowered me to work to make sure that the same false precept:
In the months leading up to my decision to create this blog, I was deep within my own family history research. One person asked me this question which I answered boldly:
"So, you are PROUD of your race?"
I have analyzed that question countless times. The word race was never one that invoked the kind of feelings like the term I use for my people: family (or heritage). My ancestors come in different colors. I have applied the same efforts in identifying each one. There are some of every shade in my family today. They are mostly lawyers, doctors, judges, teachers, and other professions. They love each other, and they love to serve each other.
My concept of family goes beyond this to include every person of the human family on the face of this earth without regard to color, religion, or ethnicity, but I realize the question asked of me pertained to my being an African American. There is implied an element of surprise or curiosity that I would have some feelings other than shame.
Unfortunately, these experiences are not few or far between, and they serve a purpose for me. Of course, the purpose for me is not to attempt to reason or to try to persuade the heart or mind of another. Paradigm shifts are personal, and challenges will only cause you to be perceived as the one who brings offense.
No, this question has empowered me to work to make sure that the same false precept:
- does not limit the young school boy or girl left unchallenged by a teacher who believes it is not worth the effort to inspire to greater heights.
- does not shame a man or woman into having apathy toward members of the community whose problems could be eased by a kind word or deed.
- does not discourage us from researching, documenting, and preserving our history for future generations.
Faith, or principles of action, help us to overcome all limitations - those that we have adopted as well as those that exist in the minds of others. We must be aware of the false percepts that exist and steer around them, or we are not free.
I began About Our Freedom two years ago hoping that on this journey I would be led to resources that would help us to define what freedom really means to us today and what we can do to embrace the fullest measure of it. I just reviewed a nine page interview I conducted with my grandmother's first cousin who moved to Illinois from South Carolina in the 1940's. It is a blessing to have family members from that time period who can tell us about our ancestors and other family members who lived long before we came along.
I treasure all the recorded interviews that I have conducted and transcribed. Each time I reflect back on them and take them out to listen or review, I feel so much more connected to my forebears. I never want to get so lost in the records that I forget that I can learn just as much from the stories that survived too. Records are important, but not as important as the life lessons that were passed down through oral history.
My interviewees are full of so much wisdom and advice. I know that the principles my ancestors lived by helped them to be happy and successful. It is my lifelong task to keep recording and preserving as much as I can.
I have worked to pass these same values on to the next generation. People who do not share my heritage sometimes remark that it must be a great burden for my child to be put under so much responsibility. I smirk inside when I consider what might have happened if my parents had somehow decided I did not need to be overburdened by expectations to do better than the generation before. I am glad I belong to a family that set high values and expectations because I would not be the person I am today. I wake up every day hoping to make myself and the world a better place.
In this interview from 2005, I was able to learn more details about my great great grandparent's and their children. I always love asking what folks looked like and what they learned from the old sayings.
It is so rewarding to dive into records to try to document the things I learn from the oral history shared. The interviews I have served me over and over as I turn to them to glean more information time after time.
This was no different with the interview of my grandmother Otis' cousin. It was wonderful to hear the names of the different family groups in birth order. One of the questions I asked her was what her father, Pettis Chick, taught her. She said she remembered him telling her to work hard and be obedient.
Then she mentioned her Uncle Clarence, my grandmother's uncle. He and his wife taught at Fayetteville Teacher's College in North Carolina (Fayetteville State University), and she said Uncle Clarence wrote to her and gave her some advice: "Read your bible. Study your Negro history, and save your money." I received that advice as if it had come to me directly from my ancestors. My great uncle Clarence was taught well.
At the end of rereading the interview, I remembered a few years ago when I was coming through the Palmetto Leader on microfilm at the Richland Library. I remember stopping to look at an article and a photo of C. A. Chick who was affiliated with Benedict College. I remember feeling he was related to me, but I had no proof so I kept spinning the reel right past him.
That picture of C. A. Chick has stayed in my mind. I learned through oral history that this branch of my family all attended Benedict College. The person in the photograph I now know would have been Uncle Clarence. I must go back to retrieve it because it will give us an idea of what he looked like before he moved to Fayetteville.
Uncle Clarence must have a really strong connection with me because I also stumbled upon a photo of him and his wife in two different yearbooks for Fayetteville on Ancestry. The citation on the yearbook mentions Benedict College which leads me to believe I really did pass up that photo of him on microfilm. I e-mailed the yearbook photos to my mother as a surprise, and this was her response:
"I went on the computer and found uncle Chick and his wife! It brought tears to my eyes, because he was the one who wanted mom and dad to send me to North Carolina to go to college free. He was a Professor there then. I remember having met him in Union at one time when I was a kid, and Daddy took us to North Carolina to see them when we were little." - My Mom.
It seems that I must continue and gather the history that remains at Fayetteville State University. In the process of writing this article, I discovered there is a building there named after Uncle Clarence's second wife: Helen T. Chick, Fayetteville State University http://services.uncfsu.edu/departments/ITTS/GoogleMap/parking.cfm. In addition to that, I discovered a speech given by Uncle Clarence:
Social and Moral Obligations of High School Graduates. It appears in a periodical entitled Vital Speeches of the Day (8/15/59, Vol. 25 Issue 21, p658).
If that does not bring enough excitement to me, I discovered other resources in the process of writing this article, and I will be sharing my thoughts on each one after I have time to review them all.
C. A. Chick
I am past words knowing that my quest has led me right back to Rev. C. A. Chick, my great uncle, and professor of economics and American History. It makes me feel good to be able to do this work of keeping the causes of our loved ones alive. We are all still connected when we can perform the tasks that make us so. I like to think my Uncle Clarence has come to know me as I have come to know him, and I hope he is happy to see that I am following his admonition to "Study your Negro history."
I treasure all the recorded interviews that I have conducted and transcribed. Each time I reflect back on them and take them out to listen or review, I feel so much more connected to my forebears. I never want to get so lost in the records that I forget that I can learn just as much from the stories that survived too. Records are important, but not as important as the life lessons that were passed down through oral history.
My interviewees are full of so much wisdom and advice. I know that the principles my ancestors lived by helped them to be happy and successful. It is my lifelong task to keep recording and preserving as much as I can.
I have worked to pass these same values on to the next generation. People who do not share my heritage sometimes remark that it must be a great burden for my child to be put under so much responsibility. I smirk inside when I consider what might have happened if my parents had somehow decided I did not need to be overburdened by expectations to do better than the generation before. I am glad I belong to a family that set high values and expectations because I would not be the person I am today. I wake up every day hoping to make myself and the world a better place.
In this interview from 2005, I was able to learn more details about my great great grandparent's and their children. I always love asking what folks looked like and what they learned from the old sayings.
It is so rewarding to dive into records to try to document the things I learn from the oral history shared. The interviews I have served me over and over as I turn to them to glean more information time after time.
This was no different with the interview of my grandmother Otis' cousin. It was wonderful to hear the names of the different family groups in birth order. One of the questions I asked her was what her father, Pettis Chick, taught her. She said she remembered him telling her to work hard and be obedient.
Then she mentioned her Uncle Clarence, my grandmother's uncle. He and his wife taught at Fayetteville Teacher's College in North Carolina (Fayetteville State University), and she said Uncle Clarence wrote to her and gave her some advice: "Read your bible. Study your Negro history, and save your money." I received that advice as if it had come to me directly from my ancestors. My great uncle Clarence was taught well.
At the end of rereading the interview, I remembered a few years ago when I was coming through the Palmetto Leader on microfilm at the Richland Library. I remember stopping to look at an article and a photo of C. A. Chick who was affiliated with Benedict College. I remember feeling he was related to me, but I had no proof so I kept spinning the reel right past him.
That picture of C. A. Chick has stayed in my mind. I learned through oral history that this branch of my family all attended Benedict College. The person in the photograph I now know would have been Uncle Clarence. I must go back to retrieve it because it will give us an idea of what he looked like before he moved to Fayetteville.
Uncle Clarence must have a really strong connection with me because I also stumbled upon a photo of him and his wife in two different yearbooks for Fayetteville on Ancestry. The citation on the yearbook mentions Benedict College which leads me to believe I really did pass up that photo of him on microfilm. I e-mailed the yearbook photos to my mother as a surprise, and this was her response:
"I went on the computer and found uncle Chick and his wife! It brought tears to my eyes, because he was the one who wanted mom and dad to send me to North Carolina to go to college free. He was a Professor there then. I remember having met him in Union at one time when I was a kid, and Daddy took us to North Carolina to see them when we were little." - My Mom.
It seems that I must continue and gather the history that remains at Fayetteville State University. In the process of writing this article, I discovered there is a building there named after Uncle Clarence's second wife: Helen T. Chick, Fayetteville State University http://services.uncfsu.edu/departments/ITTS/GoogleMap/parking.cfm. In addition to that, I discovered a speech given by Uncle Clarence:
Social and Moral Obligations of High School Graduates. It appears in a periodical entitled Vital Speeches of the Day (8/15/59, Vol. 25 Issue 21, p658).
If that does not bring enough excitement to me, I discovered other resources in the process of writing this article, and I will be sharing my thoughts on each one after I have time to review them all.
- Which Way? Chick, C.A. // Vital Speeches of the Day;10/1/52, Vol. 18 Issue 24, p764 Presents the text of a speech given by C.A. Chick, professor of economics and U.S. government at State Teachers College, on May 18, 1952 which deals with the future of African-Americans in southern U.S.
- Signs of Hope. Chick Sr., C.A. // Vital Speeches of the Day;9/15/54, Vol. 20 Issue 23, p724 Presents the text of a speech given by C.A. Chick Sr., professor of Economics and American Government at Fayetteville State Teachers College in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 27, 1954, which deals with the rise of nationalism in Africa.
The West's Changing Attitude Toward Africa
C. A. Chick, Sr.
The Journal of Negro Education
Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 1960), pp. 191-197
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2293167Vol. 29, No. 2 (Spring, 1960), pp. 191-197
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
Recent Southern Industrialization and its Implications for Negroes Living in the South
C. A. Chick, Sr.
The Journal of Negro Education
Vol. 22, No. 4 (Autumn, 1953), pp. 476-483
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2293523Vol. 22, No. 4 (Autumn, 1953), pp. 476-483
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
C. A. Chick
The Journal of Negro Education
Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring, 1947), pp. 172-179
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2966185
Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring, 1947), pp. 172-179
Published by: Journal of Negro Education
Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2966185
The Role of Higher Education in Transmitting Democratic Ideals Into Behavior Patterns
I am past words knowing that my quest has led me right back to Rev. C. A. Chick, my great uncle, and professor of economics and American History. It makes me feel good to be able to do this work of keeping the causes of our loved ones alive. We are all still connected when we can perform the tasks that make us so. I like to think my Uncle Clarence has come to know me as I have come to know him, and I hope he is happy to see that I am following his admonition to "Study your Negro history."
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- 5. Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
- 6. Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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- 9. John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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- 20. Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
- 21. Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
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- 24. Retreat from Reconstruction: The Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
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