The 2024 cohort of 10 field school ‘students’ and two of the organizing team in front of the Robert Smalls house in Beaufort, SC.

Summer 2024

This page shows the Story Maps that field school participants made in the summer of 2024 examining different themes about African American preservation and heritage, rooted in the place of Hebron Church (now Hebron Center) and Promise Land School Annex on Johns Island.

Asas Ye Duru
By Faith and by Might
Ain’t you got a right to the tree of life
Da Color Blue
Hope, Faith, Education and Prosperity in Gullah Geechee Life: Setting Your Own Path
Preserving the Conceptualization of Black Education
Community is Power
What a Fellowship: A Meditation on the Old Hebron Church
The Erasure of Black History
Spikey Truths: Sweet Solutions

We also held a mid-point presentation discussing the activities of the first two weeks of the field school. To view the slides click below.

mid-point presentation

… plenty of work yet to be done