Searching for Connections

Searching for Connections
A Visit to Ms. Catherine's House

Hewn Timber
Cabins Home

Ms. Catherine's

Background
on the Cabin

Quick Tour of
Ms. Catherine's

List of
Illustrations

Searching for Connections

Because Mars Bluff is the old name for the area around Francis Marion University the big map is named "Mars Bluff Words Are Clues that Point to Various Places in Africa." This map lists words that were used by people in this area and traces these words to specific ethnic groups in Africa. This attempt to establish even a tenuous connection with specific people in Africa represents a healthy search for the sources of our African heritage.

Photo 1999.

Note: More information available from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), pp. 156-172.

Copy of map is from George Peter Murdock, Africa: Its Peoples and their Culture History (New York:McGraw Hill, 1959), map is in pocket of book noted above.