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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation - Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom (Paperback)
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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation - Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 690
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When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a
photograph of four former slaves in his social studies
textbook--two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began
the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of
Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of
archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years.A
descendant of Wessyngton slaves, Baker has written the most
accessible and exciting work of African American history since
Roots. He has not only written his own family's story but included
the history of hundreds of slaves and their descendants now
numbering in the thousands throughout the United States. More than
one hundred rare photographs and portraits of African Americans who
were slaves on the plantation bring this compelling American
history to life. Founded in 1796 by Joseph Washington, a distant
cousin of America's first president, Wessyngton Plantation covered
15,000 acres and held 274 slaves, whose labor made it the largest
tobacco plantation in America. Atypically, the Washingtons sold
only two slaves, so the slave families remained intact for
generations. Many of their descendants still reside in the area
surrounding the plantation. The Washington family owned the
plantation until 1983; their family papers, housed at the Tennessee
State Library and Archives, include birth registers from 1795 to
1860, letters, diaries, and more. Baker also conducted dozens of
interviews--three of his subjects were more than one hundred years
old--and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings. A
groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of
discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting
story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into the
institution of slavery and its ongoing legacy today.
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