Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 we think there were perhaps as many as 200 people enslaved at the highest point. We have record of people that weve found, 357 over the course of that 100plus years. There are going to be a lot of people missing from that. Where we will start introducing that population is on our first memorial where were going to begin in memorials we built to people enslaved in the state of louisiana and enslaved on this land. This is the wall of honor. And on this memorial, we have recorded the names and basic information about 354 individuals that we have been able to find who were enslaved on this land. This memorial is it moves through time roughly chronologically. In the earlier this side we have people who are born in the 18th century. Were missing the entire generation of enslaved people here. We dont know anyones name who was enslaved here from the very beginning in 1752. All of these people were born after the founding of this plantation
We are beginning our tour today in a historic friedmans church built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in paulino, louisiana. This structure was donated to us about ten years ago but i descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, 2 parcels of land for the express purpose of building a house of worship, and in the sale document which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure the anti they named their congregation the antiyoked baptist congregation. That message of being against the yoke or against slavery is something thats important to our story here and a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. Its really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour at the whitney plantation here in this building so we can kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about
Hi, my name is ashley rogers, im the director of Museum Operations at the whitney plantation and were beginning our today in a historic freedmans church which was built circa 1870 by people who lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us by the descendants of the founders of the congregation. They bought the land in 1870. Two parcels of land for the purpose of building a house of worship and in the sale document which we have from the courthouse they named their congregation the antiyoke, or against slavery is important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. Whitne
Lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders 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, which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure the anti they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message, being against the yoke or against slavery, is something thats important to our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. So we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. Whitney plantation is the only Plantation Museum in t
Side of the river. This structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870 two parcels of land with the express purpose of building a house of worship. And in the sale document which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure they named their congregation the antiyokut baptist congregation, and that message of being against the yoke, or against slavery, is something that is important for our story here. And this is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river, and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who socked freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here, where we can kind of the what happens to people, some of the things they care about after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only to show in that is all of these things help us tell we had to build things here an