Posts Tagged ‘John F. Baker Jr.’
Saturday, July 12th, 2014
On July 11th Nashville Public Television aired its documentary Wessyngton Plantation: A Family’s Road to Freedom. The film was inspired by my book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom and the Tennessee State Museum exhibition Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation. The documentary highlighted the life of my great-great-great-grandmother Jenny Blow Washington. Jenny along with her sister Sarah was brought from Sussex County, Virginia to Tennessee in 1802 by Joseph Washington who founded Wessyngton Plantation. Jenny married Godfrey a slave from a neighboring plantation and became the matriarch of one of the largest families on Wessyngton. Godfrey and Jenny later had nine children, including my great-great-grandfather Emanuel Washington (1824-1907). Today there are thousands of their descendants throughout the United States. Click link to view the documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdce9dud1c0
Tags:Civil War, Ed Jones, Emancipation, Emanuel Washington, Freedmens Bureau, George A. Washington, Godfrey Washington, Granville Washington, Henny Washington, Jane Smith Washington, Jenny Blow Washington, John F. Baker Jr., Joseph Washington, Mary Cheatham Washington, Nashville Public Television, NPT, Overseer, plantation slavery, Robert DeHart, Sesquicentennial, Slave Labor, Slavery, Tennessee slavery, United Colored Troops, Wessyngton Plantation: A Family's Road to Freedom, WNPT
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
Tags:African Cemetery, Civil War, Daniel Brock, Emancipation, Ground Penetrating Radar, John F. Baker Jr., Plantation, Rob DeHart, Roots, Sequicentennial of the Civil War, Slave burials, Slave Cemetery, Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation, Stephen Yerka, Tennessee Crossroads, Tennessee slavery, Tennessee State Museum, The Old South, Underground Railroad, Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
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Saturday, December 28th, 2013
Tags:Add new tag, Cemetery Survey, Civil War, Civil War Sesquicentennial, Daniel Brock, Ground Penetrating Radar, John F. Baker Jr., Rob DeHart, Sesquicentennial, Slave burials, Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation, Stephen Yerka, Tennessee slavery, Tennessee State Museum, Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom, Wessyngton Plantation African American Cemetery, Wessyngton Slave Cemetery
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
John Baker and Friends at Greater South Baptist Church, 1981
Recently while going through some old photographs, I ran across this one taken with childhood friends Wanda Gardner, Drextel Bowling, Teresa Gardner, Charles Gardner and Kim Bradley. The photo was taken in 1981 at Greater South Baptist Church during a Black history lesson. I was quite surprised when I noticed the blackboard behind me had part of the subtitle to my book Journey to Freedom in the background nearly thirty years before the book was published. My publishers at Atria Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster selected the subtitle for The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation.
Tags:Atria Books, black history, Charles Gardner, Drextel Bowling, Greater South Baptist Church, John F. Baker Jr., Kim Bradley, photographs, Simon & Schuster, Subtitle, Teresa Gardner, Wanda Gardner, Wessyngton Plantation
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
My half-hour television interview with John Seigenthaler Sr, A Word on Words, is available as a free downloadable Podcast.
http://www.wnpt.org/productions/wow/
Mr. Seigenthaler asked me many in-depth thought-provoking questions. At the end, he said, “I learned more from your book than I learned from reading my friend Alex Haley’s book called Roots.” I hope you enjoy the interview. Leave a comment with your reaction.
Tags:Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Black History Month, book review, Civil War, DNA Research, Emancipation, family history, family tree, Genealogy & DNA, George Washington, John F. Baker Jr., John Siegenthaler, plantation slavery, Reconstruction, Roots, Simon & Schuster, Tennessee slavery, Washington family, Wessyngton Plantation, WNPT, Word On Words
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