Narration on Hobcaw Barony and Friendfield Village.

joseph myers

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Description

Historical Places. South Carolina

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

US African American

Transcript

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Friend Phil Church. Voiceover built between 1890 1900 by plantation owner Robert James Donaldson. Friend Phil Church is typical of low country Friedman's churches. The structures single interior room served as a religious social and community center for four former slave villages. In contrast to praise houses, small cabin size structures used by slaves for services. The construction of larger more prominent places of worship for freed blacks was a sign of change after emancipation. Slave cabin Voiceover built sometime before 1860 for slaves of the rice plantation. This is the oldest structure still standing at Friend Phil Village. The dwellings, rectangular, one story gabled roof structure is reminiscent of Irish and English cabins of the era. While its two room floor plan is considered Yoruba. In origin, the home's creolized design is another example of how African and European traditions intermingled on hop called Barony during the plantation era. Laura Carr, a midwife and descendant of newly freed slaves lived in this dwelling her entire life. From 1868 to 1935 Minnie Kennedy born in Friend Phil Village in 1916. Remembers Mrs Carr, well, strawberry school voice over Bernard Baruch directed the construction of strawberry school in 1915 to provide an education for Hob Car. Baron's mostly illiterate African American Children, many of whom lived in Friend Phil village. The effort to build a school and hire a teacher was humanitarian, yet paternalistic. The school encouraged black families to stay on the property and ensure cheap labor for the largest state while reinforcing Baruch's self image as the benevolent landlord, a traditional Southern notion rooted in the plantation era education. However modest provided black residents a window of opportunity beyond the outdated plantation lifestyle of Hob Caw Barony, and most likely contributed to their near complete abandonment of the estate by the 19 fifties.