People who lived on the opposite side of the river in louisiana. This is structure was donated to us about ten years ago, by the descendants and the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the seal document, which we have in the courthouse, they named their structure, their congregation the anti yoke baptist congregation. That message of being against the yoke or against slavery was something that is important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so its really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so that we can kind of see what happens to people, some of the things that they cared about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only Plantation Museum in the state o
Hi, my name is ashley rogers, im the director of Museum Operations at the whitney plantation and were beginning our today in a historic freedmans church which was built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us by the descendants of the founders of the congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land for the purpose of building a house of worship and in the sale document which we have from the courthouse they named their congregation the antiyoke, or against slavery is important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. Whitne
The civil war and using 50 objects, while the multi layered and political history, takes in the totality context of the war, it does not consider the history, or sequence of battle. Harold what do you think about that . Well it is a fair enough comment of course the objects that we are discussing are all in some way related to new york history so it relates to the soldiers who served the leaders who helped or hindered the union war effort, and along the way here, over these last few weeks weve touched on bells. Those who experience them, and certainly the battle for new york city because early on we dealt with the draft riots, indeed indeed. So we are doing okay i think. That is a fair comment. I agree. I thought we might as well air. It yes. Tonights evening has two objects. The portrait of ulyssesesque grant from 1860, eight and a coined by Benjamin Franklin butler. So first up is the london portrait of grant such 1864 and ulysses as grant arrives in washington to receive his promoti
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