The place I call home is a place of enslavement. It's a place where at least 250 people were enslaved. It's a black space, but it's a place a lot of people want to claim as white. I'm learning to own all that history.
2. The Silence at Bremo
• Bremo Plantations – Fluvanna County, Virginia
• At least 246 people enslaved
• Existing slave cemetery and standing slave cabins
• Yet, no one talked about these people or the part they played in
that space.
3. Seeing Twice
• The Landscape is beautiful
• The Landscape is brutal
• The Landscape is a reminder.
4. The Work of Landscape
Imagination
• We have to see what remains.
• We have to see what was.
• We have to value both.
5. The Work of the
Creative
• To Remember and Witness
• To Remind and Profess
• To Recreate
• To Preserve
• To Honor