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Avery Research Center for
African American History & Culture
College of Charleston
125 Bull Street
Charleston, SC 29401

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Avery MESSENGER
Summer 2008
Vol. 6 No. 2

featured this month:

"Fourteen Years at Avery"
Tribute to Avery's outgoing Executive Director
Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney

Organized Labor & Unions
Highlights from Collections

The Jenkins-Avery Jazz Traditions.
An excerpt from the book by Journalist, musicologist Jack McCray

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AVERY RESEARCH CENTER is an archives and museum.
Our mission is to collect, preserve, and document the history and culture of African Americans in Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry.

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"The Many Faces of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

A Pictorial Exhibit of Observance of the 40th Assassination of
Dr. M. L. King, Jr. The exhibit is comprised of magazine covers, LP's, clothing, furniture, lapel pins, stamp cachets.

Cox Gallery
Through December 15, 2008

"Finding Priscilla's Children:
The Roots and Branches of Slavery"

June 2, 2008 - August 2, 2008
McKinley Washington Auditorium

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Finding Priscilla's Children: The Roots and Branches of Slavery, is an exhibition on the poignant story of Priscilla, a 10-year old African girl kidnapped into slavery in 1756. Her exile began in Sierra Leone West Africa, and ended in Charleston, South Carolina.

Using a rare documents, scholars have traced Priscilla's origin in Africa, her exile on the middle passage, and her life in bondage in America.

Scholars have used this document trail to identify one of Priscilla's modern descendants, an African American woman still living in South Carolina today, who recently made an extraordinary "homecoming" journey back to Sierra Leone.

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Artist Dana Coleman holds his painting of his depiction of "Priscilla."Coleman’s image shows the enslaved child standing between two adult Africans who, like her, had been captured and marched to the sea to be sold to European ships.
Photo by Wade Spees/Charleston Post & Courier

Gallery talk by Joseph Opala,
historian and original exhibit curator
will discuss linking Thomalind Martin Polite, the descendant of Priscilla,
a kidnapped enslaved girl to her ancestral home in Sierra Leone.
July 23, 2008
6:00 p.m.
McKinley Washington Auditorium

"The Life and Times of Congressman Robert Smalls"

planter

The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture will display the exhibit The Life and Times of Robert Smalls from
August 7, 2008 - September 20, 2008.

An opening panel discussion and symposium will feature four scholars and a Robert Smalls descendent.

The Humanities CouncilSC
sponsored this event through a Major Grant in February 2008.

The Robert Smalls Collection
Helen Boulware Moore, Curator

Art Credit: The Planter by James Denmark, 2008