Heritage poetry
Ray Heath, right, reads poetry she composed during her work at Southern Wesleyan University through the 2005 African-American Heritage Poetry Series, as poet Charlene Spearen awaits her turn to read.
The poetry reading, at Freedom’s Hill Church on the Southern Wesleyan University campus, featured original poetry written specifically for this site, interpreting components of African history, slavery in America and the history of Freedom’s Hill, an 1848 anti-slavery church and the first Wesleyan-Methodist church in the South. The event culminated the African-American poetry workshops held at Southern Wesleyan University and in the surrounding community.