African-American Experience

Posted by Georgene A. Bramlage Feb 9, 2007

Colonial Williamsburg (VA) programs endeavor to explain the role of African Virginians in 18th century colonial America. These programs, developed over the last two decades, invite visitors to be part of that experience. CW's Great Hopes Plantation highlights how African Virginians and their masters lived and worked together on a typical niddle-sized rural VA farm. Great Hopes Plantation is an activity-based interpretive site geared toward family participation. Colonial Williamsburg, America's largest outdoor living history museum, is my favorite place to admire and study recreations of mid-Atlantic American colonial landscapes.