{"id":604,"date":"2010-06-13T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T05:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2011-04-26T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:49:25","slug":"national-black-arts-study-group-at-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/national-black-arts-study-group-at-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"National Black Arts Study Group at Wessyngton Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; 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font-size: 12pt;\">Today I had the honor of conducting a study group tour of Wessyngton Plantation for Dr. Collette Hopkins, Director of the National Black Arts Festival of Atlanta, along with a number of her colleagues and distinguished guest. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>The tour included a visit to the Wessyngton mansion, Washington family cemetery, and a former slave cabin.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>Participants were told about the lives of enslaved African Americans on the largest tobacco plantation in America and walked in their footsteps.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt;\">The above photo was taken at the entrance gate to Wessyngton Plantation where I was told as a small child by my grandfather that was where my ancestors came from.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The interest in my family\u2019s history led me on a thirty year journey of discovery and the writing of <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family\u2019s Journey to Freedom.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the honor of conducting a study group tour of Wessyngton Plantation for Dr. Collette Hopkins, Director of the National Black Arts Festival of Atlanta, along with a number of her colleagues and distinguished guest. \u00a0The tour included a visit to the Wessyngton mansion, Washington family cemetery, and a former slave cabin.\u00a0 \u00a0Participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,15,19,13,21,18,20,22],"tags":[443,238,12,573,444,91,82,244,442,440,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}