american history and culture curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly. i m the vice president of the education research and historical interpretation division. it s my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. 40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on af
williamsburg interpreters talk about bringing african-american stories to life and how they felt compelled to tell their ancestor stories appropriately. panelists include american civil war museum ceo christy coleman and curator rex ellis. good evening. my name is beth kelly and i am the vice president of the education, research and historical interpretation division. and it is my honor to offer you a warm and personal welcome. the word welcome has a great deal of meaning for colonial williamsburg. we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 1932. fort years ago the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story, and so with determination and courage and p perseverance, the program was designed by our panelists tonight so we could tell the whole story of our 18th community. blending social history with public history to tell the african-american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making h
the word welcome has a great deal of meaning we have been welcoming guests to come and learn about our 18th century community since 19 8:30 2:40 years ago, the foundation recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so, with determination and courage and perseverance, programming was designed by our panelists tonight so that we could tell the whole story of our 18th century community. blending social history with public history to tell the african american story had never been done before, and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelists discussions we will have this year, and i would welcome you to come back on july 5th, where we will look at current programming that focuses on african american stories, and also on october 18th, where we will be focusing on the future. our panelist that discussion will be helping us to think about how we continue to tell the story. as mitchell said, it s all of our story. i know our panelists well
the 400th anniversary of virginia s first general assembly held at jamestown. explore our nation passed on american history tv, every weekend, on c-span3. next on american history tv, colonial williamsburg historical interpreters talked about portraying 18th century african american life. colonial williamsburg hosted this event. [drumming] [speeding percussion] [drumming story sounds] great [drumming] foreign language] carter woodso [drumming] carter woodso [drumming] [drumming] [applause] [applause] good evening to you. good evening to everyone. kanady. ijanice will be a guide. we re going to take a tour through williamsburg. i m going to tell you i want you to see it, look at it, think about it. you ve probably read a lot about williamsburg, the second home of the capital, jamestown being the first what i want you to think about is not in the book. it is in your heart and your mind. this is the thinking tour. we will experience performances in the building. first we re
test. test. test. test. captioning performed by vitac and what slavery did. so we try to soften it, it s part of our bargaining. so inevitably somebody was going to ask the question and they did every day, well, are they good to you? slavery isn t that bad, is it? i mean, look how you re dressed, at least you have your children with you. and, you know, it would be that kind of thing, which was, you know, no matter how well intentioned, it s still annoying. fortunately enough i was playing a character where i could let that be known. but the problem was that we were doing the work of the household, so we sat down with barney and i said, man, listen, i m tired of hauling wood every day, you know, rose and i are out here hauling buckets of water, working in the garden, we are working like slaves. we want to be clear, we portray them. so, you know, so we need to work something out with the landscape department or something.