Southern Horror #33

Southern Horror #33 (The Carolinas 1 of 35) by Kris Graves The Meriwether monument in North Augusta, South Carolina was erected in 1916 to honor Thomas McKie Meriwether, the sole white man to die in the race-related Hamburg Massacre of 1876. Meriwether was one of eight casualties in what historically was retold as a “riot.” The monument now faces scrutiny from protestors for what it symbolizes. While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every site we could find. Some have been remo...View all