HIlton Head, NC

We got off the 1-95 to visit Hilton Head, NC and the upscale gated resort of Sea Pine we found a little visited former plantation. Now we have been riding through the south and this was the only tangible evidence of slavery we saw.

Stoney-Baynard Ruins: were built 1793 the weird thing is there built out of tabby.  Tabby is a mixture of water,sand, crusted and burned oyster shells, and whole oyster shells.  Baked by the hot sun they cemented and were used in the building of all buildings on the plantation.  Above you can see an up close picture of the structures.

Another fact that stood out to me was the cotton planted on the Island was higher quality and fetched $2 per pound. Slaves were forced to pick 75 pounds of cotton per day.  They say that Island cotton was harder to pick then upland cotton. So in a day slave master made $150.  I wonder how much of it was spent on the slaves per day?

I have never been to this part of the deep south put i can now report to you that the weather is bad.  The humidity is so high.  I can only imagine what it was like for slaves to be out in the fields with mosquitoes biting, snakes, etc.

It makes me sad that our brothers were put into such hard labour.  But I am reminded of Moses his people were in slavery for 430 years but God raised a deliver who was from them but was not one of them (Obama).  God is doing something and people need to open their eyes. There are two choices to go Canaan or spend 40 years going round the same mountain but let no one ever say that God does not vindicate.