McLeod Plantation: A look into history.
This weekend my husband and I went to Charleston, South Carolina to do some exploring and shopping. While we were there we decided to visit one of the many slave plantations in Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is known for its massive slave trading, and to this day Charleston exhibits some of the culture the slaves has left behind such as: food, dialect, the structure of slave buildings ,straw markets, etc.
I learned alot on my tour about the slave owner, the slave trade, the type of work the slaves were responsible for doing and the decedents of the slaves. I would like to give you some highlight of my visit.
McLeod Plantation is consist of the welcome center, plantation landscape, dairy and kitchen, McLeod Home.,Land Onnership, Transition Row, Tenant Home., Home of Enslaved, Worship Home, Cotton Gin House, Cemetery, Wappoo Creek, and Pavilion.
Worship Home
Cotton Gin House
McLeod Home
Inside of McLeod's Home
I learned that Eugene Frazier a native of Charleston., South Carolina .He is still alive and he was born in 1936 . He helped his mother harvest crops at McLeod Plantation. Despite segregation and discrimination he became a detective and lieutenant with the Charleston County Sheriff's office. Eugene has contributed greatly to the understanding of life on James Island and at McLeod Plantation by chronicling the stories, experiences, and important places of African American on the island before and after freedom. Other families on the plantation were the Gathers and Dawsons.
This tour was enlightening, I got the opportunity to walk on the same soil the ancestors walked. I will never feel the pain and the struggle they went through, but I am honored to be apart of the culture they left behind. If you want to learn more or visit McLeod Plantation you can visit CharlestonCountyParks.com or call 843-795-4386.
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