Gullah Campfire Supper with Stories and Songs: Emancipation Celebration!
Sat, Jan 14
|Saint Helena Island
Recall with us the reading and celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation that took place on Camp Saxton, January 1, 1863.
Time & Location
Jan 14, 2023, 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Saint Helena Island, 42 Robert And Clara Trail, St Helena Island, SC 29920, USA
About the event
Morning Glory Homestead Farm will present a program about the first reading and celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation at Camp Saxton.  The program will feature dramatic interpretations from excerpts of newspapers and journals/diaries of a few important attendees; the Camp Diary of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, January 1, 1863 , Charlotte Forten Grimké, and Susie King Taylor. Hear about the participation of USCT soldiers Sergeant Prince Rivers and Corporal Robert Sutton.Â
Enjoy a meal similar to the barbecue served at Camp Saxton. Â Hear songs performed during the emancipation program and others from the time. Â
The meal will include beef roasted over fire remeniscient of that prepared for the emancipation program at Camp Saxton. Â Additional dishes will be like those of a traditional Gullah New Year's Day meal. Â Vegetarian dishes will be included. Â Taste gingerbread and rootbear similiar to that made and sold by Harriet Tubman when she lived in Beaufort. Â Sit under the live oaks of the farm and hear historians and reinactors alike share about that marvelous event. Â
Tickets
Emancipation Day Event
This ticket includes the program and meal.
From $40.00 to $75.00Sale ended- $75.00+$1.88 service fee
- $40.00+$1.00 service fee
- $50.00+$1.25 service fee
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