Project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationist, and team of tremble incorporated who came along to have a series of 3d laser scans. We are here the 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 slavehouses in the united states. It is a acting as Central Depository of documentation and information about slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i have used to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. It is important the to do this, because one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, and so by documenting that, that is one way of preserving them. And documenting them through my database is also a way to share in
Preservationist jobie hill has been writing about slave dwellings in the united states. Her interdisciplinary work includes photograph, 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 jobie hill and learn about her saving slave 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. And it is staffed as a central repository 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 documenta
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