Vlach's lecture included a pictorial tour of the Hill's perimeter, where most of the 18th century landowners had their homes, slave quarters and tobacco barns.
Vlach is a professor of Anthropology and American Studies at George Washington University and the author of ten books, including Charleston Blacksmith, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts, Folk Art and Art Worlds, and Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. He also has curated a number of exhibitions for the Smithsonian's Museum of American History and other institutions around the country and has generously assisted the Overbeck Project as a conceptual adviser and as a trainer of our volunteers.
