Oral history archive at the Builders & Defenders database, the database for the enslaved and free who built @FortNegley & defended Nashville in the Civil War.
Nashville, TN
Joined March 2018
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Our most recent interviews are live! We have four new videos featuring descendants of @FortNegley. We will showcase each of the videos individually over the next few weeks, but if you can’t wait, you can check out our channel here: m.youtube.com/channel/UCFb2W…
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Bass Street was a #Nashville neighborhood founded by Black Civil War veterans and their descendants, who lived there until the city removed it to make room for the interstates during the urban renewal period.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
Great news! The short documentary, What Happened to Bass Street, is going on its festival journey. May the unbridled enthusiasm of the Juneteenth test screening at @FortNegley follow this film wherever it goes.
Tomorrow! Find out What Happened To Bass Street! First screening is 4pm at Fort Negley To kick off Juneteenth!
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
You are invited!
June 19, 4pm, @FortNegley Visitors Center. Featuring descendants of Bass Street at Fort Negley and all your favorite experts: @learothawms, @Pubhistorian, @dsharfstein, @AuntB, and more!
The brochure is for the new Builders and Defenders database, which contains the names and biographical information about 19,000 enslaved & free Black Civil War era builders and defenders of Nashville. Find out if you are a descendant of this @FortNegley population. @NegleyFriends
Capturing descendants from the Bass Street Church for a documentary! The church's original location was at the foot of @FortNegley as it was started by Black Civil War veterans.
The artist William Edmondson was also a descendant of @FortNegley. His family members Persil and Orange were enslaved and made to cut stone to help build the largest inland stone fortification of the Civil War.
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Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
Spent the day with archaeologists @ArchaeoAndrew and @ClelstheArchaeo and Ms. Jeneene Blackman of the African American Cultural Alliance, filming them talking about artifacts from the Bass Street Community at @FortNegley.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
This is Mr. Scruggs. 90 years ago, he was baptized into the Bass Street Church at @FortNegley. Today, though the church has moved twice due to Urban Renewal, he is still a member! He gave an unbelievable oral history interview.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
Today I got to interview our own @AuntB about her re-discovery of Leander Woods, the formerly enslaved Civil War veteran who fought the KKK at @FortNegley to protect Bass Street residents from white supremacist terror. We're standing right about where his home was in Napier.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
I'm spending all afternoon with descendants of Bass Street at @FortNegley tomorrow and I'm so excited! We're discussing filming for the Bass Street documentary, and what they feel are the most important things to share about their community.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
I'm so excited to announce it! Thanks to this generous support from @VanderbiltLocal, the AACA and descendants of @FortNegley and I are making a documentary with the emmy-winning videographer, Seck, entitled "What Happened to Bass Street?"
Community Engagement Collaboration program announces nine inaugural awardees news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/03/…
#Nashvillecommunity #CommunityEngagement
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
True story- when I began working with the @fortnegleydesc I was asked to meet with the IRB, who tried to advise me, quite poorly, on my work with "human subjects." It was the only model for working with the Black people who live near Vanderbilt that they understood.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
Unearthing History: The Rise and Fall of Nashville's Bass Street Community
fox17.com/news/local/unearth…
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
Read this whole thread if you can. #BlackHistory *is* #americanhistory
Our one human family may be dysfunctional & in denial much of the time but we are *one family * still…
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Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
This thread is amazing. Such important work for those who don't have the privilege of easily accessing their ancestry. Does your family have any documents like this? Please share them!
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The riveting conclusion to the story of Nashville's Black Lovell family & the descendant of their enslaver.
Fort Negley Descendants Project retweeted
#BlackGravesMatter-Yes to @MPenalozaNPR for shining the light on the Black Cemetery Network and the Rollingwood Burial Ground for Enslaved People in Chevy Chase, MD.
npr.org/2024/02/09/122670775…