Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT
In 1796, Joseph Washington, a distant relative of our first president, purchased sixty acres in Middle Tennessee for tobacco farming. Eventually covering 13,000 acres, Wessyngton Plantation would thrive off the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds of African Americans. Unlike other plantations only two slaves were ever sold from Wessyngton, resulting in several generations of enslaved family members living and laboring together.
As a child, Author John F. Baker Jr. was mysteriously drawn to a photo of Robertson County slaves in his middle school textbook. When his grandmother explained that he was looking at his great-grandparents, he became obsessed with their story. In 2008 his book "The Washington's of Wessyngton Plantation" was released. The culmination of more than thirty years of research, it details the lives of hundreds of his family members. Baker spent decades combing through countless family and state archives, researching birth and death records, and conducting dozens of interviews with relatives and historians. Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom brings to life this deeply moving story of pain and perseverance.
Видео Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT канала Nashville Public Television
As a child, Author John F. Baker Jr. was mysteriously drawn to a photo of Robertson County slaves in his middle school textbook. When his grandmother explained that he was looking at his great-grandparents, he became obsessed with their story. In 2008 his book "The Washington's of Wessyngton Plantation" was released. The culmination of more than thirty years of research, it details the lives of hundreds of his family members. Baker spent decades combing through countless family and state archives, researching birth and death records, and conducting dozens of interviews with relatives and historians. Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom brings to life this deeply moving story of pain and perseverance.
Видео Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT канала Nashville Public Television
Показать
Комментарии отсутствуют
Информация о видео
12 июля 2014 г. 3:30:02
00:29:41
Другие видео канала
Dawn of Day: Stories from the Underground RailroadEnslavement to EmancipationThe True Story of Madam C.J. Walker | TWO DOLLARS AND A DREAMNottoway PlantationLaura Plantation - A Descendant of SlaveryHidden Room of Thomas Jefferson's Mansion Solves 200 Year Old MysteryMoonlight and Magnolia: A History of the Southern PlantationThe duality of Thomas JeffersonLena Horne Documentary 1996Thomas Jefferson's Black & White Relatives Meet Each Other | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWNSally Hemings (2000) | DocumentaryAmerica's First Museum Dedicated to Telling the Story of Slavery | The New YorkerThe Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanCharleston, SC: A Video TourWESSYNGTON PLANTATION TOUR_ PRESENTATIONVirginia PlantationsAfrican American History in the Lowcountry: Revolts and InsurrectionsHUGE Plantation Explore! (SO LUCKY TO FILM THIS CREEPY/BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC HOME!)Touring George Washington's Estate At Mount Vernon!