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An innovative preservation and public-engagement initiative founded by Joseph McGill, the Slave Dwelling Project raises awareness of the enslaved by preserving, interpreting, and sustaining extant slave dwellings. Beyond educational conferences and living-history programs like Inalienable Rights: Living History Through the Eyes of the Enslaved, the Project’s deeply symbolic act of sleeping overnight in slave cabins brings visceral attention to the often overlooked physical spaces of enslavement—those lived environments where stories of resilience and survival unfolded