Behind the big house ii was much bigger and better.
Behind the big house tour charleston. Step inside the back buildings and former work lots of charleston s private houses during the second annual beyond the big house tour sept. Beyond the big house. Behind the big house is one of few historic site tours developed with the specific goal of interpreting slavery. It has the potential to be bigger still.
59 meeting instead had the dependencies to the side. Looking beyond the big house and into the lives of slaves a new house tour bypasses charleston s antebellum mansions and takes visitors directly to the quarters where enslaved people lived and. The majority of structures in the most historic district of the city front on narrow deep lots with the dependency structures behind the big house. Tour storytelling discover how the current owners have preserved and restored these areas of the property while hearing about the experience of slaves in the lowcountry.
Following the tour is a storytelling session lead by interpreters in the aiken rhett house s back lot. Like the slave dwelling project the behind the big house tour is still going through growing pains and still has to convince some people and entities we mean no harm to anyone and that this is the right thing to do. 15 2018 presented by the slave dwelling project the charleston gaillard center and historic charleston foundation hcf.