From trimble, inc. , who came along to document brand pop plae the Brandon Plantation with laser scans. Were here to do laser scans and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. Its to act as a Central Depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. And i have partnered with trimble which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. Important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. You know, slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. And so by documenting them, thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my data base is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn from them. This is a
A last way to think about this is name a monument that has changed the world. A few. Name a monument that has moved you to tears. Think about it, though. My answer is one down the street. As a historian you just finished, right . Im sorrsorry. Sorry, sorry. I would just like to say despite the numbers game and the allusion to a newschannel that shall not be named, i do believe in the power of historians. I do believe we need to speak up and speak out. We need to be writing at our local and state levels as well as national levels. And it takes historians to be a little more proactive, not just wait to be invited. And so thats why ive been speaking out, and i think that more historians ought to be doing that. And thank you. If you google karens name and Washington Post and one or two words, youll get that plea. That would be the one or two words . The piece i dont know if that was that or the New York Times. The New York Times. The New York Times. Oh, that was the cnn piece where i said
Okay. So oh, goodness. Heres the oh, okay. So heres the auction. Auction block and auctioneers stand. So thats thats the brick dependency. Okay. Thats the duck house. Duck house . A duck house. This is the wash house. Pretty tiny. Yeah. This one has a neat feature on back side of it. It has a drain in the wall where they would just dump [ inaudible ] yeah, yep. Dump the water out. So this is the slave house. My name is jobie hill and were at Green Hill Plantation which is in campbell county, virginia, and im here with the Company Trimble and they are here with me for my independent project which is called saving slave houses. Which is doing documentation of all of the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school for my masters thesis, i started doing research with the Historic American Building survey collection, which is a wpa program that started in 1936 to get architects back to work. And so 1,000 architects were hired to go out and document significant Historic Str
Houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because one documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, so by documenting them, thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my database is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn
I want to thank representative gerald connollys office for aranging the room, the 11th district of virginia for electing representative mcconnolly since hes been generous enough to be doing this and i want to thank the History Center for doing are had the work. The national History Center offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, then its our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform, debate and decision making. That obligation forms the sole position in these briefings. Were not here to convince anybody of any particular legislation. Were here because understanding the implications of change and hence shaping its direction requires understanding it changes that have brought us to this juncture in the first place. And weve discussed in these meeting rooms the histories of immigration, Civil Military relations, executive orders, social security, commerce in outer