Drayton Hall Stories: Preserving the Recent History of a Place

South Carolina Archives & History Foundation

April 7th – In Person with George W. McDaniel – How can we use historic preservation and recent history to build bridges? If Charles Drayton and Catherine Braxton, descendants of the slave owner and of the enslaved at Drayton Hall, can use them to try and forge a way forward, can we? Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People is the book that they wanted. The result is grounded in a specific site yet universal. It will underscore the importance of using a place to preserve recent history and will ask how diverse people can tell their stories about the past yet to be unified by their hopes for the future.