{"id":805,"date":"2014-07-12T19:27:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T00:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2014-07-12T19:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T00:32:26","slug":"wessyngton-plantation-a-familys-journey-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/wessyngton-plantation-a-familys-journey-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"WESSYNGTON PLANTATION: A FAMILY&#8217;S ROAD TO FREEDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 11th Nashville Public Television aired its documentary Wessyngton Plantation: A Family&#8217;s Road to Freedom.\u00a0 The film was inspired by my book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom and the Tennessee State Museum exhibition Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0 The documentary highlighted the life of my great-great-great-grandmother Jenny Blow Washington.\u00a0 Jenny along with her sister Sarah was brought from Sussex County, Virginia to Tennessee in 1802\u00a0by Joseph Washington who founded Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0 Jenny married Godfrey a slave from a neighboring plantation and became the matriarch of one of the largest families on Wessyngton.\u00a0 Godfrey and Jenny later had nine children, including my great-great-grandfather Emanuel Washington (1824-1907).\u00a0 Today there are thousands of their descendants throughout the United States.\u00a0 Click link to view the documentary:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bdce9dud1c0\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bdce9dud1c0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 11th Nashville Public Television aired its documentary Wessyngton Plantation: A Family&#8217;s Road to Freedom.\u00a0 The film was inspired by my book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom and the Tennessee State Museum exhibition Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation.\u00a0 The documentary highlighted the life of my great-great-great-grandmother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[573,552,63,35,166,547,556,38,36,456,541,174,34,554,550,549,256,45,553,507,264,7,8,555,551,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}