Robert santos only states cannot outlaw the status of drug addiction. They can prohibit conduct like drug use. I am nervous. Youll have to plug me in. Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you all of us joining us here in person as well as all of you turning in from around the world. I am the Senior Vice President of Research Programs at the simpson center. It is my great pleasure to welcome you all here today for a very special event. The Stimson Center is a Foreign Policy think tank founded in 1989 in washington dc. We promote and pursue International Security and shared prosperity through applied research and independent analysis, global engagement, and policy innovation. 2024 is the 35th anniversary of the Stimson Center and we are marking this occasion with a year of global exploration together with some of the greatest Foreign Policy and International Security minds today. We are delighted to have as part of the Anniversary Series a special guest and friend to distant plants and are the
From trimble, inc. , who came along to document brand pop plae the Brandon Plantation with laser scans. Were here to do laser scans 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. Its to act as a Central Depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. And i have partnered with trimble which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. Important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. You know, slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. And 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. This is a
Okay. So oh, goodness. Heres the oh, okay. So heres the auction. Auction block and auctioneers stand. So thats thats the brick dependency. Okay. Thats the duck house. Duck house . A duck house. This is the wash house. Pretty tiny. Yeah. This one has a neat feature on back side of it. It has a drain in the wall where they would just dump [ inaudible ] yeah, yep. Dump the water out. So this is the slave house. My name is jobie hill and were at Green Hill Plantation which is in campbell county, virginia, and im here with the Company Trimble and they are here with me for my independent project which is called saving slave houses. Which is doing documentation of all of the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school for my masters thesis, i started doing research with the Historic American Building survey collection, which is a wpa program that started in 1936 to get architects back to work. And so 1,000 architects were hired to go out and document significant Historic Str
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