Houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, 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 database is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn
Database of former slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes architectural documentation, photography, interpretation and preservation of slave history. Up next on american artifacts, we travel to southern virginia near the North Carolina border to visit the former Brandon Plantation with joe b. Hill and learn about her saving slave houses project. Shes joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble, incorporated who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of a independent project that i am doing that is called saving slavehouses which is a database of all of the known slave houses in the united states. It is a repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highe