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Priscilla was just ten years old in 1756 when a slave ship took her from her home in Sierra Leone in West Africa to a Charleston slave market where she was sold to a Lowcountry rice planter. This spring, nearly 250 years after this voyage, a seventh-generation direct descendent of Priscilla, will travel to Sierra Leone on an historic “homecoming” visit at the invitation of that nation’s government.
Please join us as historian Joseph Opala of James Madison University discusses recent historical research uncovering Priscilla’s story and linking her to her modern-day descendants in South Carolina. Following the lecture there will be a brief showing of video footage recently taken in Sierra Leone by Charleston-based filmmaker Jacque Metz who is working with Professor Opala on the TV-documentary, “Priscilla’s Homecoming.”
Friday, February 11, 2005. 6 p.m. Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens, 1235 Long Point Road, Mt. Pleasant, SC
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