Drayton Hall is an eighteenth century ranch situated on the Ashley River around 15 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, and straightforwardly across the Ashley River from North Charleston, west of the Ashley in the Lowcountry.

What was filmed at Drayton Hall?

Freedom and Slavery (2016 Video)

Did Drayton Hall have slaves?

Thomas Drayton showed up to South Carolina from Barbados on board the boat Mary in 1679. An enumeration of the island of Barbados that year recorded that Drayton possessed 12 sections of land, seven slaves, and the agreement of one white worker, notwithstanding one recruited, white worker.

Is Drayton Hall part of Magnolia Plantation?

Perhaps it was the disclosure that the two estates had a place with a similar more distant family — Magnolia having been built by Thomas Drayton in 1676, and Drayton Hall approximately 60 years after the fact by John Drayton, Thomas' most youthful child.