CSPAN3 June 11, 2017
They were 40 to 100 slaves in this area of drayton hall. But to run this house itself, the draytons head cooks, butlers, stable hands, blacksmiths. They had carpenters. We have gone through the slave lists and identify the names of these individuals. We have tried to highlight those places that are distinctively african american, like the africanamerican cemetery that dates to the 1790s. We have done careful research to show the area to have been a cemetery. Making it the oldest documented africanamerican cemetery in the nation still in use. Descendents of the africanamerican can any from dray...