Between the lines: Free Blacks Living on Mason's Neck during the Civil War

Between the lines: Free Blacks Living on Mason's Neck during the Civil War

2012

Dramatic reading from historical documents performed by Bob Hartman, Janis Harless, Jerry Lyons, Gary Knipling, and Anne Barnes. Produced ... in order to document a small antebellum settlement of free Blacks clustered along Neck Road, now known as Harley Road, on Mason's Neck. For them the war brought dislocation, personal jeopardy, and economic loss. Gunston Hall Archaeologist Dave Shonyo narrates the film with remarks from Mary V. Thompson, Research Historian, Mount Vernon, and Rev. Donald Binder, PhD, Rector, Pohick Church, contributing commentary.

Produced by the Gunston Hall Seeds of Independence Committee

DVD

Oral Histories

E185.18.B489 2012, Gunston Hall Library and Archives

District: Mount Vernon