{"id":740,"date":"2013-11-29T14:33:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-11-29T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:33:16","slug":"recently-discovered-photograph-from-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/recently-discovered-photograph-from-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"RECENTLY DISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPH FROM WESSYNGTON PLANTATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-739\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/recently-discovered-photograph-from-wessyngton-plantation\/jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton-231x300.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-739\" alt=\"jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton-790x1024.jpg 790w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/jenny-washington-emanuel-washington-susan-washington-at-wessyngton.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In preparation for the Tennessee State Museum exhibit, <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation, <\/em>descendants have been asked to locate Wessyngton artifacts, photographs, paintings and other memorabilia. A descendant of the owners of Wessyngton living in Nashville recently discovered this photograph in an album that belonged to his grandmother. The photograph was taken at Wessyngton in 1903, featuring Jenny Washington b. 1830, (wife of Allen Washington), Emanuel Washington 1824-1907 and his sister Susan Washington b. 1821.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span>When the photo was taken there were only five former slaves still at Wessyngton of the senior generation, which also included Henny Washington 1839-1913 and Aggy Washington Terry, b.1824.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the Tennessee State Museum exhibit, Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation, descendants have been asked to locate Wessyngton artifacts, photographs, paintings and other memorabilia. A descendant of the owners of Wessyngton living in Nashville recently discovered this photograph in an album that belonged to his grandmother. The photograph was taken at Wessyngton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,13,21,18,20,1],"tags":[219,37,35,36,516,7,517,515,8,518,519,514,520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}