Franklin finley africanamerican heritage trail. This is our fourth year doing the tours here in mobile. Actually they got started five or six years prior to that when one of our africanamerican city councilman took a trip to boston honesty business. While he was there, he saw a sign that said africanamerican heritage trail. He thought that sounded interesting, because it was kind of a novelty. It was prior to most of the museums we see today and the trails. He took the tour and he enjoyed it. He got to thinking on his way back to mobile mobile was close to 300 years old. And he had heard his family discuss about a lot of the contributions africanamericans had made. He said i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. He started looking around the city for someone that would take on the opportunity or the challenge, just depending on the prospective that they looked at it from. After nine months of searching, he finally found a young lady that said i will take on the
Of former slave dwellings in the united states. Her of former slave dwellings in the united states. Her work includes architectural documentation, photography, intprestation and preservation of slave history. Up next, on american art facts, we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation and learn about her saving slave houses project. E is joined by several archeologists. And a team who came along to document the plantation with a laser scans. We are here to do laser scan yg and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am laser doing t called saving slave houses which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a Central Depository of information and dock yiltation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trim bl the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us
We are here to do a laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing thats called saving slave houses which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a Central Depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimbell, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. So by documenting them thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my data base is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn from them. So this is a way for people to learn about these buildings and save them, and make them available to a wider audience without having to nece
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