the charleston trust looks after charleston farmhouse, which was the former home of the bloomsbury artistsm, ethel. you think that everything has been said or written about the bloomsbury group but they are continually surprising us. what we have here are 422 works on paper by duncan grant. this collection was given by duncan grant to a friend. for a long time everybody thought it had been destroyed. because of its homosexual nature and because they were illegal images it was thought that his friends' family had destroyed them on his death. but luckily they were saved and they were given to another friend and another friend and another friend and eventually they came down to the person who has given them to charleston. why did you decide to give them to charleston? i've been wondering who i might pass them on to and i thought this could go on for centuries if we don't kind of stop it. did you ever take them out from under the bed and show them to people? occasionally, yes. some friends would come round for dinner and the subject would go vaguely towards bloomsbury and i would say, well i d

the charleston trust looks after charleston farmhouse, which was the former home of the bloomsbury artistsy were saved and they were given to another friend and another friend and another friend and eventually they came down to the person who has given them to charleston. why did you decide to give them to charleston? i've been wondering who i might pass them on to and i thought this could go on for centuries if we don't kind of stop it. did you ever take them out from under the bed and show them to people? occasionally, yes. some friends would come round for dinner and the subject would go vaguely towards bloomsbury and i would say, well i don't know if you know about this but i've got all these erotic drawings and would you like to see them. and so i would haul them out and show them a few. there were hundreds so one got the gist quite quickly. they need to come out of the closet now and be considered and looked at and thought about. i mean, they are a serious collection. absolutely beautiful. i think it's a really significant discovery. a lot of talk about bloomsbury and its relationshi

charleston at this time. mary chestnut rights, "in april of 19 621, there stands fort sumter -- 1861, there stands fort sumter." there was this constant fear that eventually war would bring out and trusted harbor would be the scene of it. basically, what's happening is nobody's sure what's going to happen once president lincoln becomes president. that happens in 1851. -- 1861. how is he going to handle a situation differently than buchanan? there are numerous political attempts to avert war. there's a peace convention in washington, d.c. there's numerous compromises to push off war. a peace delegation from the confederate states. all these are rejected. reject's going to acknowledging the confederate states of america, believing secession was illegal and had no actual authority. so, all the communications between the united states government and south carolina in the confederates is going to be through government francis pickens, with a view as -- who they viewed as legitimate. something was. happening on the ground. anderson and his men were running out of food and supplies. he wasn't going to stay there forever. what is lincoln going to do? lincoln comes up with the idea to send a rel

he was purchased in charleston south carolina and brought to a cotton plantation of the georgia coast. he was multilingual and he wrote to a trusted position on the island, even being allowed to train other enslaved men with muskets for defense of the island during the war of 1812. he seems also to have played a role as a religious leader. this 13 page document was was -- was once thought to be his diary, or recent scholars say it outlines some of the basics of islamic practice. this is how we wash our hands before prayer. this is how we wash our feet before prayer and this is the times we pray. omar, he became open to conversion, but against a lot he seems to have been part of a religious community. not only were there other muslims on the island who looked to him as their leader, he had 12 sons and seven daughters, all of whom were said to pray by kneeling and bowing facing east on woven mats. it may have been for those 19 children that he wrote these instructions. a further note about these instructions, scholars who work with the document today suggest that the way he uses language speaks of a person who is in the process of f