Populations in virginia history. This piece represents the emerging european and native American Cultures. Many people talk about virginia history being for centuries long. The history of human habitation of virginia stands back to between 16,000 to 20,000 years in the past. The canoe we have here represents the way in which these two cultures sometimes clash with one another, sometimes fail to see eye to eye. In many ways we are learning from one another, and absorbing elements of each others culture. The canoe here is made in the traditional dugout, new fashion where you have a log that has it iselled, and traditionally scraped out by setting a small fire within the log. That small fire is controlled very carefully by the folks making the canoe, and the ashes are scraped away with seashells. What makes this canoe unique is the markings that you are able to see within the interior of the canoe. They are very straight, they were made by very sharp tools and are very regular. These mark
International history as well. We are going to begin by looking at a canoe thats roughly 300 years old. This is a piece that is actually a symbol much tof the collisiono cultures that make up the earliest populations in virginia history. So this piece represents the merging of european and native American Cultures. Many people talk about virginia history being four centuries long but in reality, the history of human habitation in virginia spans back to anywhere between 16,000 to 20,000 years into the past. So the canoe we have here represents the way in which thighs two cultures sometimes clashed with one another, sometimes failed to see eyetoeye but in many ways, were learning from one another and absorbing elements of each others culture. So the canoe here is made in the traditional dugout canoe fashion where you have a log thats been felled and its traditionally scraped out by setting a small fire within the log. The instasmall fire is controll carefully by folks making the canoe an
International history as well. We are going to begin by looking at a canoe thats roughly 300 years old. This is a piece that is actually a symbol much tof the collisiono cultures that make up the earliest populations in virginia history. So this piece represents the merging of european and native American Cultures. Many people talk about virginia history being four centuries long but in reality, the history of human habitation in virginia spans back to anywhere between 16,000 to 20,000 years into the past. So the canoe we have here represents the way in which thighs two cultures sometimes clashed with one another, sometimes failed to see eyetoeye but in many ways, were learning from one another and absorbing elements of each others culture. So the canoe here is made in the traditional dugout canoe fashion where you have a log thats been felled and its traditionally scraped out by setting a small fire within the log. The instasmall fire is controll carefully by folks making the canoe an
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 sale document we have from the courthouse, they named antiyokeregation the congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been and theg the structure church. We had to build some things here , restore e
Express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been restoring the structure and the church. We had to build some things here, restore existing buildings, and bring this historic structure a