Georgia Historical Society

Sunday

Welcome and Workshop Overview

Monday 

Hodgson Hall (GHS)

Readings:

• Erskine Clarke, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (Yale University Press, 2005)
• John Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
• Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 64-76, 142-76, 290-324
 
Lectures
• Dr. Erskine Clarke, Columbia Theological Seminary
• Dr. John Michael Vlach, George Washington University

Tour

• African-American History Tour, Beach Institute

Tuesday

Sapelo Island 

Readings:

• William S. McFeely, Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom (W.W. Norton, 1994)
• Cornelia Walker Bailey, God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks About Life on Sapelo Island (Doubleday, 2000)
• Malcolm Bell, Jr., Major Butler’s Legacy:  Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family (University of Georgia Press, 1987), pp.98-153, 255-287

• Philip D. Morgan, "Work & Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880," William & Mary Quarterly 39 (October 1982): 563-599

Lectures/Presentations
• Cornelia Walker Bailey, Author, Hog Hammock resident
• Buddy Sullivan, Director, Sapelo Island Natural Estuarine Research Reserve

Wednesday (week 1) Thursday (week 2) 

Telfair’s Owens-Thomas House: The Urban Experience

Readings:

• Betty Wood, Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 1995), pp. 80-121
 • Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 154-161, 316-324

Lectures/Presentations
• Dr. David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Vaughnette Goode Walker, Owens-Thomas House  

Thursday (week 1) Wednesday (week 2)

Ossabaw Island  

Readings:

• Betty Wood, Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730 – 1775 (University of Georgia Press, 1984), pp. 1-23, 74-109, 131-187

• Betty Wood, Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 1995), pp. 12-30, 53-121

Lectures/Presentations
• Dr. Paul Pressly, Ossabaw Island Foundation
• Emory Campbell, Penn Center
 

Friday

Beach Institute Neighborhood Tour

Workshop wrap up