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Mammoth Cave's African-American Heritage | Kentucky Life | KET

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Mammoth Cave began offering public tours in 1816. From the start, African Americans played a vital role in the development of cave tour routes and shaping the experiences of cave visitors. Many of the first guides were slaves-among them, Jerry Bransford's great-great-grandfather.
Bransford, a native of Glasgow, is the fifth generation of his family to work as a guide at Mammoth Cave. His great-great-grandfather Materson Bransford explored the cave as a teenager before becoming a guide. Since the 1990s, Jerry Bransford has been leading cave tours and sharing details about the cave and the legacy of the early guides.
A 2014 New York Times essay earlier this year, "A Family at the Center of the Earth," tells the story of Bransford's family heritage. Bransford, for whom guiding tours at Mammoth obviously runs in the blood, is proud to share the legacy and story of the African-American heritage of Kentucky's world-famous natural wonder.
Parts of this segment were originally recorded for the 2009 KET production "Kentucky's National Parks."
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@omegastarhobbyfarm394
@omegastarhobbyfarm394 2 жыл бұрын
This is my family Jerry Bransford is my cousin, I now farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky @ Omega Star Hobby Farm. I'm very proud of where I'm from and how I was raised to respect and cultivate the land. Enjoy this education.
@StressLessCamping
@StressLessCamping Жыл бұрын
Today, March 9, 2023, we had Jerry Bransford as our tour guide. At 77 years old he does a great job including sharing the geological history and social past of the cave. I feel extraordinarily fortunate for this experience.
@katjagolden893
@katjagolden893 3 жыл бұрын
So glad he is a guide teaching history
@sophielily2015
@sophielily2015 9 ай бұрын
Mr. Bishops story is so inspiring 🥹👏🏾!!!
@g.dollar2563
@g.dollar2563 6 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating!!!! I will definitely put this on my list of places to visit in the near future! I want to learn more!
@wanderingtravels2488
@wanderingtravels2488 5 жыл бұрын
A place to enjoy a nice day and I wasn’t aware of the connection with the African-American connection Thank you for the information
@mevineven869
@mevineven869 3 жыл бұрын
Look like you're unhappy with that
@isiahmatthews
@isiahmatthews 3 жыл бұрын
Very nice cave I was in there once I believe in 1974 and never once did they tell us this story of black people the temperature in the cave stays the same nice and cool it doesn't matter how hot it is outside or cold the temperature remain the same I will always remember this one story that they told us that a black girl fell into a deep pit and the walls was smooth and she got out and they can't understand how she got out to me it sounds like somebody push her into that pit and leave her there to die but the LORD made a way for she to get out and that's the reason why they can't understand how she got out the LORD will make a way out of no way evil people don't understand that
@theguildedscribe777
@theguildedscribe777 2 күн бұрын
@mushirahtirielbey1790
@mushirahtirielbey1790 6 жыл бұрын
I'm sure they had a language as indigenous ones.. And could read spell, and write so i can only guess it was just not so called 'english'
@cienergi
@cienergi 3 жыл бұрын
Yes! The census stated my ancestors could read and write.❤️❤️
@fitawrarifitness6842
@fitawrarifitness6842 2 жыл бұрын
When you have evidence, then you can be "sure".
@comnet1962
@comnet1962 Жыл бұрын
Amazing Black History.
@PFResearch
@PFResearch 5 жыл бұрын
uh oh kentucky thank you for preserving our heritage
@hatinallday74
@hatinallday74 4 жыл бұрын
Ummm preserving our heritage of SLAVERY???? WAKE UP !!!!
@kreativekulturetv2488
@kreativekulturetv2488 4 жыл бұрын
I was a student in 2001 @ Great Onyx Job Corps and Western Kentucky University and it's crazy how white people seem to think that this stuff is ok...all of us are not happy grateful slaves....some of us are still waiting for the day for you to pay the debt that your ancestors owe us!!! We have not forgotten!!!
@danewhitt489
@danewhitt489 Жыл бұрын
How are we responsible for what our ancestors did lol. We owe you nothing.
@yaxjvn
@yaxjvn Жыл бұрын
@@danewhitt489 because of what you just said. Then says "well that was my ancestors. I shouldn't be responsible" no one is trying to make yall responsible as white folks of what your ancestors did. However, if y'all ignore the system leftovers, the result and effects and let it continue then yes y'all are responsible. Many white people like yourself say " I didn't own a slave" well that doesn't matter, what matters is the residual effects that came afterwards. It's easy to say " well I did do it" . Stop telling what you didn't participate in. Start telling what are you participating in to stop it from rolling.
@danewhitt489
@danewhitt489 Жыл бұрын
@@yaxjvn if the white man owes anyone its the indians they murdered their women and children and kept them detained on a reservation
@yaxjvn
@yaxjvn Жыл бұрын
@@danewhitt489 so forcely taking and removing millions of people their homes [ btw they were women, children too] onto a boat to sail thousands of miles to another continent , forcely separated from their family and sold, rape, murder in mass numbers on a plantation, stripped of their names, forbidden to practice their own culture, forbidden to speak their languages and forced to speak the colonizers language, etc [ only preserve some of their culture] force to assimilate, then after centuries in being in enslaved. You have a president to legislate a "emancipation" but that didn't stop for the enslaved people to be but back into slavery [Devil's punchbowl] where they were put into concentration camps, starved to literal death and forcely worked to death. Afterwards, since they couldn't be enslaved anymore, then the colonizers decide to make laws to separate, redline that lasted for decades, not only that - created a system to put brown and or dark people from success. But then when did create our own infrastructure- [Tulsa Race Massacre (1921), Ophanage asylum, Colfax, Louisiana massacre (1873) [ This was a direct attack on Black men getting the right to vote during Reconstruction. After Whites contested the result of the 1872 election, Black men and a mostly Black state militia holed up around the parish courthouse to protect the local government. On Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, they were surrounded by a White mob that set the courthouse on fire and shot anyone who emerged. It is estimated that 62 to 81 African Americans were killed.] , Atlanta Massacre (1906), Elaine, Arkansas Massacre ['Red Summer of 1919' (1919), Rosewood Massacre (1923) - Rosewood was a successful Black town in the Florida pine woods until it was burned to the ground by a White mob seeking revenge for the supposed assault of a White woman. At least six people were killed, perhaps more. Survivors waded through swamps in their nightclothes to escape. , Wilmington, N.C., 1898: This incident is better described as a successful coup d’etat, in which white supremacists overthrew the results of a local election. In the process, they killed dozens of Black people and burned down much of Wilmington’s prosperous Black neighborhood. Black families ran into the woods to hide while others were forced to leave by train, never to return and MANY MORE BLACK MASSACRES. Not only that, Laws to have not them to vote until the 1960s [not that long ago], create incarceration system to lock Black people in, they put drugs into their neighborhoods, create sundowntowns [that are still exist today] where they couldn't come to or you'll be lynched, murdered, kidnapped. But wait it doesn't stop their disparities in housing, business loaning, police brutality, etc.... so you think that we aren't owned nothing?!?! y'all are lucky that we don't want revenge...
@theguildedscribe777
@theguildedscribe777 2 күн бұрын
! THAT'S RIGHT!
@patrickmcqueen6066
@patrickmcqueen6066 2 жыл бұрын
funny how the narrative goes from they were there from the beginning to they were slaves!
@fitawrarifitness6842
@fitawrarifitness6842 2 жыл бұрын
They came there as enslaved people
@doegod7776
@doegod7776 Жыл бұрын
Right they were not slaves but the original indians
@timcross9815
@timcross9815 3 жыл бұрын
Seriously???
@doegod7776
@doegod7776 Жыл бұрын
These were aboriginals who been here from thousands of years. They are American not African Americans
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