Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to slavery opened a few months ago in Wallace, Louisiana. Michelle Miller visits the museum and found a surprising history, not only about the plantation, but her own family.
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Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the Union. The largest urban areas are Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City, located on the Missouri River. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Mississippi River forms the eastern border of the state. Humans have inhabited the land now known as Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture built cities and mounds, before declining in the 1300s. When European explorers arrived in the 1600s they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French established Louisiana, a part of New France, and founded Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved Af...
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Missouri's Civil War Battlefields
Only two other states claim more Civil War battles than Missouri. All across the Show-Me State today, visitors can walk in the footsteps of the soldiers, both blue and gray, who fought for the causes they believed in. For more information, go to VisitMO.com or call (800) 519-4800 for a copy of your Official Travel Guide.
Black Slave Owner and Breeder in South Carolina ~ The Interesting Story of William Ellison
....William Ellison was one of the wealthiest men in the South as well as being a black, former slave. He owned cotton gins, plantations, and 68 slaves. And from accounts of the time, he wasn't very nice...At the peak of slavery in the United States, large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some 8 million of them lived in the slaveholding states. The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves. Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 % of southern whites owning one or more slaves, however, around 30% for free blacks owned slaves).
In the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more.
Binder Park Civil War reenactment,Jefferson City 2012
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Tellin' You All About It. April 14th 2015 Missouri State Symbols
Tellin' You All About It. April 14th 2015 Doggy Diamonds Thief. 88.9 FM KJLU General Manger Mike Downey entertains us with facts and frivolity on this months offering of wit and wisdom.
Scenic Stops: Civil War Museum
The American Civil War Museum of Ohio is a not-for-profit organization formed to satisfy our community's need for a unique educational museum by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the American Civil War and its impact on the current generation of American people. The museum offers eight exhibit rooms with hands on exhibits for adults and children designed to enhance your experience and knowledge of the Civil War and Ohio's role in it. While visiting, you can also see live re-enactments of the Civil War!
Time For Talk Early Missouri History
Episode from Time for Talk in 1988 with Rose Mary talking about the Early surveys & history if Missouri
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Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom | NPT
In 1796, Joseph Washington, a distant relative of our first president, purchased sixty acres in Middle Tennessee for tobacco farming. Eventually covering 13,000 acres, Wessyngton Plantation would thrive off the blood, sweat and tears of hundreds of African Americans. Unlike other plantations only two slaves were ever sold from Wessyngton, resulting in several generations of enslaved family members living and laboring together.
As a child, Author John F. Baker Jr. was mysteriously drawn to a photo of Robertson County slaves in his middle school textbook. When his grandmother explained that he was looking at his great-grandparents, he became obsessed with their story. In 2008 his book The Washington's of Wessyngton Plantation was released. The culmination of more than thirty years of research, it details the lives of hundreds of his family members. Baker spent decades combing through countless family and state archives, researching birth and death records, and conducting dozens of interviews with relatives and historians. Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom brings to life this deeply moving story of pain and perseverance.
COLUMBIA TN - James K. Polk Presidential Home & Museum | Truly Remarkable Life
I (Craig) took a little bit of a retreat to the country in the form of a road trip between June 23 - 28, 2017 and ended up exploring the Natchez Trace just south of Nashville, TN, I came across the home of the 11th President of the United States, James K. Polk. Much to my surprise, it was quite an interesting stop with rare and well-preserved history. The town itself wasn't overwhelmingly beautiful, but it does boast a very Back to the Future -like town square.
I would also recommend driving around within a few blocks of the square to find the beautiful old homes. They are very picturesque.
I was able to stop for photos and antique browsing at the square, and had lunch at the Market Square Café. It was very good, but I'd recommend something other than their signature dish -- the Tennessee Hot Brown. It was interesting, but the menu was so great that I left wishing I'd have tried something that wasn't swimming in alfredo sauce. Okay, so I can say I tried it ONCE.
There is just enough to do in Columbia to make an afternoon of it along your way down the Natchez Trace.
Be sure to look up the Meriwether Lewis historic sight in nearby Hohenwald, TN.
I plan to make it back someday to hit many of the old south plantations and civil war sites that are scattered along the Natchez Trace. In the meanwhile, I thought this would make a fitting Independence Day video! Enjoy!
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Carson City: Nevada State Capitol Building
Tour the Nevada State Capitol Building with Guide Ron Roberts. Walk through the marble halls of the building, which was built in 1871. See the statue of Sarah Winnemucca, a Native American activist and educator that greets visitors as they enter the building, and hear the story of Nevada becoming a state in the midst of the Civil War.
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Tales from Missouri and the Heartland - 100 Four Minutes Stories by Ross Malone
Tales from Missouri and the Heartland - 100 Four Minute Stories, School Edition by Ross Malone. To order, please visit Watch this short trailer and find out how this book can bring Missouri history to life in your classroom!
Why America Needs a Slavery Museum
The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and only U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. While other museums may include slavery in their exhibits, the Whitney Plantation is the first of its kind to focus primarily on the institution. John Cummings, a 78-year-old white southerner, has spent 16 years and more than $8 million of his own fortune to build the project, which opened in December of last year.
Cummings, a successful trial attorney, developed the museum with the help of his full-time director of research, Ibrahima Seck. The duo hope to educate people on the realities of slavery in its time and its impact in the United States today. “The history of this country is rooted in slavery, says Seck. “If you don’t understand the source of the problem, how can you solve it?”
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Lebanon
Join me on a visit to Lebanon, Missouri!
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Lebanon
Lebanon, lying 1,265 feet above sea level, in Missouri’s Central Ozarks, was founded in 1849 as the seat of newly organized Laclede County. Southern settlers named the town for Lebanon Tenn. The county name honors the founder of St. Louis.
When Lebanon refused the South Pacific Railroad (now the Frisco) free land for a depot, the track was laid a mile from town, 1869. Later Lebanon moved to the railroad and the original site became “Old Town.”
Novelist Harold Bell Wright (1872-1944) was pastor of the Christian Church here, 1905-07. The setting of his “The Calling of Dan Matthews,” published, 1909, is Lebanon. He also used Brice village and Bennett’s Mill, both of which once stood in the state park, as background.
Bennett Spring State Park, scenic trout fishing resort, features a spring welling up a daily average of 71 million gallons from a gravelly basin 886 feet above sea level. The spring feeds the Niangua River. In 1924, the state bought the park, which lies in both Dallas and Laclede counties. “
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Lebanon lies midway between Rolla and Springfield, on historic Route 66. Pioneers traveled over an Indian trail through here which later became a part of the St. Louis to Springfield Road. Cherokee Indians, on their “Trail of Tears” removal to Oklahoma in 1837, came along the road here.
During the Civil War, the pioneer road became a military highway. A telegraph line strung from Rolla, Mo., to Fort Smith, Ark., went along the road by 1862, and the telegraph route soon became known as “The Old Wire Road.” Throughout the war, Lebanon was occupied alternately by Union and Confederate troops.
Lebanon is the birthplace of Governor Phil M. Donnelly, elected in 1944 and again in 1952, first in the state to be chosen to two four-year terms. Here lived Richard (Silver Dick) Bland, congressman, 1873-95, 1897-99; Joseph W. McClurg, governor, 1869-71; Negro educator William T. Vernon, Register of The U.S. Treasury, 1906-11. A memorial shaft marks the grave of McClurg in the Lebanon Cemetery and a statue of Bland stands on the courthouse lawn.
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Rare 1920s Footage: All-Black Towns Living the American Dream | National Geographic
By the 1920s, Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns, in addition to a large and prosperous black community living in the city of Tulsa. These towns and their self-reliant middle class and affluent residents are documented by the home movies of Reverend S. S. Jones, an itinerant minister and businessman. Known and respected by the citizens of the towns whose lives he captured on film, Rev. Jones’s work offers revealing glimpses of these communities as a haven for African Americans who very often faced discrimination elsewhere in America. The subjects are everyday life: a family on the front porch of their bungalow, shop workers at a storefront, farmers plowing their fields, children playing on seesaws in a schoolyard. Much of the material documents the economic life of the towns, from business districts filled with prosperous merchants to the homes of successful professionals, with an abundant countryside beyond. As Rhea Combs, curator of film and photography for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, points out in her commentary, here we even find a married couple who were oil barons, proof of the extraordinary progress made in the relatively short time since the end of slavery. The fashions and hairstyles, automobiles and horses, and even such details as a man manually pumping gasoline at a filling station make the films a fascinating record of the lives of Americans, and African Americans in particular, in the early 20th century.
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The 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Marshall Reenactment - 15 September 2013
The City of Marshall, Missouri hosted the 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Marshall Reenactment at the Indian Foothills Park in conjunction with The Missouri Civil War Reenactors' Association on the 15th of September 2013. This video footage is of the last ten minutes of the battle.
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Christina Miller, Senior Reference Archivist at the Missouri State Archives, explores some of the genealogical resources available to Missouri researchers.
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African American Experience in Missouri Lecture Series - Miller Boyd
The fifth African-American Experience Lecture, Why Don’t You Come Down Here and Enlist and Fight for Your Country?: Black Military Service in Civil War Missouri, was presented by Miller W. Boyd III on October 20, 2016.
St. Louis native Miller W. Boyd III shares insights from his groundbreaking research into the African American experience in Missouri during the Civil War. In unraveling the traditional motives for service—fighting to destroy slavery in America, securing black citizenship, and preserving the Union—Boyd shows that personal freedom and a chance to financially provide for families were often stronger motivations to enlist. An award-winning scholar, Boyd is a past recipient of the Center for Civil War Research McMinn Fellowship and the Supreme Court of Missouri Historical Society Robert Eldridge Seiler Fellowship.
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