The Legacy Project/Ossabaw Island

 The Legacy Project is a culture enrichment program which teaches culture, tradition & histories of Blacks & Native Americans to youth, 7th through 12th grades, in San Francisco's Bayview Hunter's Point.  Toni Battle, founder, & The Legacy Project have been invited to participate with Joseph McGill's The Slave Dwelling Project!  McGill is a Field Officer with The National Trust and developed The Slave Dwelling Project, which visits existing slave dwellings throughout the U.S. to bring attention to the need to preserve them as historical landmarks of history; and to create dialogues in communities about the untold stories of the enslaved.  Next Month, May 2013 (Mother's Day weekend), The Slave Dwelling Project will embark on a journey to Ossabaw Island, one of the Gullah Islands, off the coast of Georgia. 

Toni and Joseph will be staying overnight in an existing slave cabin and conducting historical dialogue within the community about preserving the dwellings and discussing the untold stories of the enslaved and their descendants.  The journey will be historical and The Legacy Project will examine ancestral ties to healing from the historical harm and generational grief of slavery.  The trip will provide powerful testimonies to oral histories, culture and tradition of both the Native and African ancestors which occupied the island. 

Information from this trip will be brought back to San Francisco Bayview Hunter's Point and shared with the community in efforts to establish The Legacy Project as a Saturday School & eventually certified as a Freedom School.  We are looking to collaborate with elders in community whom migrated from areas, representative of Ossabaw's history, to speak to their experiences of Jim Crow and how it has impacted their present relationships with youth in community today.  This will be a healing journey of generations and communities near and far.

Funds for this journey are needed to cover airfare, lodging, food, transportation and miscellaneous expenses.  No "love token" (donation) is too small!!  Every little bit helps!  The Legacy Project is confident that the power of community will help provide a way to get there! 

To learn more about us you may visit the FB pages of The Legacy Project, The Slave Dwelling Project and you may learn more about Ossabaw Island at:  www.ossabawisland.org