{"id":415,"date":"2009-07-12T13:59:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2009-07-12T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:59:48","slug":"enslaved-african-american-families-on-wessyngton-plantation-in-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/enslaved-african-american-families-on-wessyngton-plantation-in-1860\/","title":{"rendered":"Enslaved African American Families on Wessyngton Plantation in 1860"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-410\" title=\"families-on-wessyngton-1860\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"families-on-wessyngton-1860\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860-638x1024.jpg 638w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-18601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-411\" title=\"families-on-wessyngton-18601\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-18601-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"families-on-wessyngton-18601\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-18601-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-18601-718x1024.jpg 718w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-18601.jpg 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1860 Wessyngton Plantation was the largest tobacco plantation in the United States.\u00a0 The Washington family also held the largest number of enslaved African Americans (274)\u00a0in the state of Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0 187 of them were held on what was called the &#8220;Home Place&#8221; near the Wessyngton mansion.\u00a0 Eighty-seven others were held on a part of the plantation known was the &#8220;Dortch Place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/families-on-wessyngton-1860.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In 1860 Wessyngton Plantation was the largest tobacco plantation in the United States.\u00a0 The Washington family also held the largest number of enslaved African Americans (274)\u00a0in the state of Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0 187 of them were held on what was called the &#8220;Home Place&#8221; near the Wessyngton mansion.\u00a0 Eighty-seven others were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[199,208,202,63,163,201,190,189,200,205,206,207,204,8,203,26,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}