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
This structure was donated about 10 years ago by the descendents 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 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
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Lets start with that story coming out of egypt. Its a tragic story. Were getting the first images of that hot air balloon crash in that country. It happened in the popular Tourist Destination of luxor, about 300 miles south of cairo. Aim amon mulhuldin. Victims include asianit crasn a sugar field falling from a ball of fire from a thousand feet above. These images on twitter show a group of balloons and tourists as they were taking off just after dawn in the ancient city of luxor. It was supposed to be an aerial tour of egypts ancient valley of the kings, one of the most popular Tourist Destinations in the world. In hong kong, the travel agency that organized the tour confirmed Chinese Tourists were among the dead. What we have received so far from where the accident h
Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a tuesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Lets start with that story coming out of egypt. Its a tragic story. Were getting the first images of that hot air balloon crash in that country. It happened in the popular Tourist Destination of luxor, about 300 miles south of cairo. Aim amon mulhuldin. Victims include asianit crasn a sugar field falling from a ball of fire from a thousand feet above. These images on twitter show a group of balloons and tourists as they were taking off just after dawn in the ancient city of luxor. It was supposed to be an aerial tour of egypts ancient valley of the kings, one of the most popular Tourist Destinations in the world. In hong kong, the travel agency that organized the tour confirmed Chinese Tourists were among the dead. What we have received so far from where the accident h