Road
Trip to Williamsburg
The duPont Library is a beautiful facility, and the
first week of lectures was informative, but a trip to the physical sites
of slavery outside of Stratford Hall adds another unique piece to the seminar
on slavery that broadens the perspectives of the seminarians.
The bus dropped us off near the powder magazine and
we attended a lecture by Christy Matthews on the
history of interpretation of African Americans in Williamsburg.
This year marks the 20th year of that interpretation. This is the
fourth year of a five year series of programs designed to examine the issue
of becoming American. This year's program is entitled Enslaving
Virginia and has been an important addition to the Williamsburg story.
We then embarked on "The Other Half" tour which highlights
the African American story at Williamsburg.
One of the most important experiences was the actual
opportunity to tend tobacco at Carter's
Grove. Although the exercise was brief, the 95 degree day with
the humidity of Virginia gave seminarians a far greater taste of the brutal
physical labor of slavery than they could have gained in the library.
After a dinner at Shield's Tavern that night, the
seminarians toured the area on their own before returning to Stratford
at 6:00 P.M. the next night.
On Friday, July 23, the seminarians loaded onto a bus bound for
Williamsburg under the watchful eye of the Secretary General, Tim Cullen.
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| The "Other Half" tour gave Seminarians an understanding
of what it was like to be an African American in Colonial Williamsburg |
Ms. Katz-Hyman gave a tour of her exhibit on abolitionism and anti-slavery |
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| Dave Keller, Marla Tam-Hoy, Dan Gossett |
Benjamin Franklin, Dan Prinzing and Tim Peppel |
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Carter's
Grove
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| Dan Gossett, Jim Hebb, Dan Prinzing, Marlyn Keaschuk,
Anita Lyons, Tim Peppel, Doris Jackson, Jane Baldridge, Georgia Messingschlagler |
To Live
Like A Slave - From The Williamsburg Home Page Describes Carter's
Grove Display
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| Dawn Cooper, David Kells and Marla Tam-Hoy pose in the slave quarters
at Carter's Grove |
Mike Merulla examines drum |
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| Robert Waston instructs seminarians on how to tend to tobacco.
From left: Donna Bertrot, Georgia Messingschlagler, Dawn Cooper, Dave Kells,
Dan Prinzing, Jim Hebb |
Lucinda Evans and Ron Briley watch Robert demonstrate the techniques |
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| Ron Briley and Lucinda Evans |
Jim Hebb |
