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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Interpreting Slavery At Colonial Williamsburg 20240711

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

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Interpreting Slavery At Colonial Williamsburg 20240714

recognized we were only telling half of the story. and so with the 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 panelist discussions we re going to 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. and our panelists at that discussion will be helping us to think about how do we continue to tell this story? for as mitchell said, it s really all of our story. i know our panelists well. and they have plenty to share with us. so please let me begin the evening by introducing our moderator. he began his career here at colon

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Interpreting Slavery At Colonial Williamsburg 20240714

programming with designs 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 has never been done before. and quite literally, they were making history. this is the first of three panelist discussions that we are going to have this year. and i would welcome you to come back on july 5, when we will look at current programming that focuses on african- american stories, and also on october 18, where we will be focusing on the future, and our panelists at that discussion will be helping us to think about, how do we continue to tell the story? lawrence mitchell said it really is all of our story. now i know our panelists well. and they have plenty to share with us. so, please let me begin the evening by introducing our moderator. he began his career here at colonial williamsburg as a junior interpreter, and became an active interpreter and manager of the inter

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ben franklin, of course, had been had switched. he had owned slaves when he was younger, he became a leading abolitionist, ben franklin. people can change. washington couldn t change that much. but on his deathbed he d written two wills. with we don t know what was in one. on his death bed he asked that both be brought to him. he tore up one and asked that it be burned. and the one that remains is the one that freed the slaves. washington was a man of action, not of words. and he must have believed, because this was that this act would send a message to the future. i don t think he wanted to be on the wrong side of history. he wanted to send a message, and that s how he sent it, through his action. do we have time for one more? nope. unfortunately, i don t have any time. i ll walk down and talk to you, but thank you so much for coming. it s been a delight to be here. [applause] on capitol hill tomorrow morning, the acting chief of the u.s. border patrol briefs members o

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