Plantations across the South offer tours telling stories about the white families who lived there. But a historian at a Nashville plantation is using her position to uncover and share the experience of slavery. (via WPLN)
Now, one woman at a historic plantation in Nashville is using her position to uncover and share the experience of slavery.
"We're going to go all the way up to the main house, but we're going to use all the entrances they used," says guide Brigette Jones."Walk through the back doors." She acknowledges, when visitors see that a black woman is giving them their slave tour, she gets a few strange looks. Even her family was uncomfortable with the idea at first.
"Black populations in these spaces are often times ignored or rendered invisible," Williams said."Explain to me how people can live there in the space for one, two or maybe even three generations, interact with the space every single day, and you don’t see any evidence at all of them being there."Credit Alana Watson / WPLN
"I come from generations of slaves and poverty, which gave me an interest into why we were still poor so many years later," she says.
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