{"id":588,"date":"2010-02-09T08:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-02-27T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T23:32:02","slug":"washingtons-of-wessyngton-plantation-stories-of-my-familys-journey-to-freed-resource-for-educators-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/washingtons-of-wessyngton-plantation-stories-of-my-familys-journey-to-freed-resource-for-educators-and-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom &#8211; Resource for Educators and Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom <\/em>has been released in trade paperback and is an excellent resource for teachers and educators.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The book chronicles the African American experience from slavery to freedom.\u00a0 It has more than 100 photographs and portraits of African Americans who were once enslaved.\u00a0 The book covers many aspects of plantation slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Genealogy, and DNA testing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.net\/Washingtons-of-Wessyngton-Plantation\/John-F-Baker-Jr\/9781416567417\">http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.net\/Washingtons-of-Wessyngton-Plantation\/John-F-Baker-Jr\/9781416567417<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family&#8217;s Journey to Freedom has been released in trade paperback and is an excellent resource for teachers and educators.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The book chronicles the African American experience from slavery to freedom.\u00a0 It has more than 100 photographs and portraits of African Americans who were once enslaved.\u00a0 The book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,19,13,21,20,22],"tags":[251,238,416,417,254,12,573,56,78,415,45,175,39,213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}