This antebellum plantation offers a look back at a turbulent time in our state's history. Produced by Our State magazine and UNC-TV, with generous support from BB&T. Segment originally aired on 7/5/2007.
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@malikahill10899 жыл бұрын
Amazing! Watching this video was very refreshing. I love history and I love my family. Dorothy is my father's cousin we met a while back at our family reunion on somerset plantation. ♡♡♡
@darrelcollins327 жыл бұрын
malika Hill...I missed a chance to join the reunion a few years back. My grandfather was adamant about touring the site with my family. He passed away last year and I will make my y there soon. I heard many stories from my family elders about this plantation, including the owner; in which I bare his last name. Such a tragedy that so much of our history was lost and the pain and suffering my ancestral family endured. I have to go there and pay homage....to awaken what I have lost through generations. Damn.
@mumv20895 жыл бұрын
Darrel Collins Have you thought of perhaps writing a book ? I would love to hear (read) that information.
@JRenee-gf3kn8 ай бұрын
RIP Dorothy Spruill Redford
@charlenedavis66787 жыл бұрын
yes suki davis is still going strong I am a descendant of hers my great-grandfather was her gran son luke davis
@s.forester6997 жыл бұрын
Great video! My great-grandmother, Victoria Smith (1889-1982) oversaw the house in the early 20th Century, running a resort on Lake Phelps. My grandmother was born at Somerset in 1929.
@darrelcollins327 жыл бұрын
Forester Randlett...my ancestors were born into slavery at Somerset...it is not revered.
@s.forester6997 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry that happened. I wasn't trying to endorse slavery. My family owned the house in modern times, about 60 years after slavery ended.
@darrelcollins327 жыл бұрын
Forester Randlett...I get it. It just amazes me that the past is so easily forgotten. Although beautiful, it is still a place of terror and despair for my ancestors. The crimes committed against them, we're never heard in the court of law, nor were they ever paid a single penny for the canals they built or farming the land.
@jaedyndreame75876 жыл бұрын
Wow
@malikahill10896 жыл бұрын
My cousin traced our ancestors from Somerset plantation all the way back to West Africa. We have our family reunion at this place and it is truly amazing... I've been on many tours and I believe that place is haunted I seen a orb there and so did my dad. Personally I believe the whole South is haunted.
@jaedyndreame75876 жыл бұрын
Dorethy Spruill Redford is my dads cousin and I met her at the Fenner\Hill Family reunion some years ago @ Somerset Place,I also read her book. heyyyyy family
@dalecouch19957 жыл бұрын
A lot of GREAT historical interpretation. It presents a complex view of life on this site. One small point I would make is that while the four room house having four families is, indeed, appalling to contemporary sensibilities, it would be worth comparing the space to yeoman white family homes--which were often only slightly more generous. One problem with having plantations as historic sites is that people walk away thinking that the lives of the white plantation owners are typical of most white families. In fact, they were rare expressions of wealth. I wish there were a nearby white yeoman farm interpreted. Again, this is excellent interpretation and far more balance than I have seen on most plantation sites. I will visit this site. Kudos!
@darrelcollins327 жыл бұрын
Dale Couch...this plantation is full of sin and misery. Slavery was not accepted by black people, it was forced on them. Who cares about the slave accommodations being equal to poor rural white farmers....they were still FREE! Poor white farmers were not hung, castrated, branded, beaten and murdered for just being black! They certainly wouldn't have served Josiah Collins and his family without some sort of monetary compensation. Slavery in America was the worst crime against humanity the world has ever seen. My last name.. .still has the remnants of chattel slavery. I listened to the stories passed down from my relatives....this place was dreadful...and the ground is literally soaked with the blood, sweat and tears of slaves. I come to the plantation to pay respect to my ancestors...in hopes they can see what has become of their children.