{"id":608,"date":"2010-06-13T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T05:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-06-13T09:16:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T14:16:10","slug":"national-black-arts-festival-study-group-walks-in-footsteps-of-bakers-ancestors-on-wessyngton-plantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/national-black-arts-festival-study-group-walks-in-footsteps-of-bakers-ancestors-on-wessyngton-plantation\/","title":{"rendered":"National Black Arts Festival Study Group Walks in Footsteps of Baker&#8217;s Ancestors on Wessyngton Plantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-603\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/national-black-arts-study-group-at-wessyngton-plantation\/wessyngton-cabin-june-2010\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-603\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/national-black-arts-study-group-at-wessyngton-plantation\/wessyngton-cabin-june-2010\/\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-603\" title=\"wessyngton-cabin-june-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wessyngton-cabin-june-2010-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"wessyngton-cabin-june-2010\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wessyngton-cabin-june-2010-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/wessyngton-cabin-june-2010-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/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;\">In addition to touring the grounds surrounding the Wessyngton mansion, National Black Arts Festival members and guests walked in the footsteps of Baker\u2019s ancestor in the slave cabin area of the plantation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The group went inside a restored slave cabin built ca. 1830.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In 1860, there were 274 enslaved African Americans on the plantation, housed in forty log cabins.\u00a0 At the onset of the Civil War, Wessyngton held the largest African American population in the state of\u00a0Tennessee\u00a0and was the largest tobacco producer in America. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In addition to touring the grounds surrounding the Wessyngton mansion, National Black Arts Festival members and guests walked in the footsteps of Baker\u2019s ancestor in the slave cabin area of the plantation.\u00a0 The group went inside a restored slave cabin built ca. 1830.\u00a0 In 1860, there were 274 enslaved African Americans on the plantation, [&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":[238,208,12,573,444,82,45,291,215,205,264,212,445,8,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}