Documentary Film: Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry

The 2023 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series concludes with Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry.
This film explores various primitive religious camp meetings-the earliest founded in the late 1700s by the horseback evangelist, Bishop Francis Asbury, along with African American evangelist, Harry Hosier, who rode with him to conduct “brush arbor” worship services for white planters and those enslaved on their plantations. In the Dorchester County pine forests of South Carolina, these camp meetings have “tents” built and owned by long-standing extended families from their respective communities. The campgrounds are all located within a 20-mile radius of each other near St. George, SC. At five different times each year, these camp meetings draw more than 3,000 congregants from extended families and friends of families nationwide. This film features the camp meetings of St. Paul and others.