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Between the Waters: Hobcaw Barony
This is where my McCants ancestors lived.
There’s something different about seeing the actual land and places connected to your family—not just names on a genealogy chart, but a physical landscape where people lived, worked, raised families, survived, and built lives.
For Black families, especially those of us tracing our ancestry through slavery and its aftermath, these connections can be complicated. So much of our history was recorded through the people and institutions that owned, exploited, or controlled our ancestors rather than through our ancestors’ own voices.
Finding the places they occupied feels like recovering another little piece of the story.
They were here. They lived lives here. And I come from them.
This is a virtual tour where the sounds of birds, and nature play while you explore the grounds. I feel lucky to have this resource, but also horrified and grief stricken to be able to see where my ancestors lived like this. Most cannot track their lineage. Most don't have people who care enough to construct something like this.
Between The Waters http://www.betweenthewaters.org/hobcaw-house-entrance/
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