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Meet the People
: African Americans
: Colonial African Americans
Audio
Listen to a Behind the Scenes Interview:
Colonial Williamsburg's Storytelling Festival.
Rex Ellis discusses Colonial Williamsburg's upcoming storytelling festival and the importance of storytelling to national culture and identity.
(AAC, 7.3Mb) Enhanced || (MP3, 3.4Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Behind the Scenes Interview:
Mr. Wythe's Cook.
Valarie Holmes interprets Lydia Broadnax – a cook for one of Williamsburg’s most influential men.
(MP3, 3.2Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Behind the Scenes Interview:
Music passed from ear to ear.
Emily James talks about the music of Africa performed on a new Colonial Williamsburg recording.
(MP3, 2.8Mb) || View transcript
Emily James interprets spirited women.
Jamaican-born Emily James has interpreted at least 16 different 18th-century women who learned how to survive lives of enslavement.
(MP3, 3Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Behind the Scenes Interview:
Recalling African American Interpretation.
Rex Ellis reflects on 25 years of interpreting the African American experience in the colonial period.
(MP3, 3.5Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Behind the Scenes Interview:
African American Interpretation.
Harvey Bakari discusses the rich history of black Americans in Williamsburg.
(MP3, 3Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Brothers in Arms Interview:
Black Women and the Revolution.
Hope Smith talks about the women and children who followed their men to war.
(MP3, 3Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Brothers in Arms Interview:
James Armistead.
Interpreter Richard Josey talks about an enslaved man who became a valuable spy during the Revolution.
(MP3, 3Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Brothers in Arms Interview:
Brothers in Arms.
Harvey Bakari shares his passion for presenting the often forgotten stories of black Americans who contributed to the American Revolution.
(MP3, 3Mb) || View transcript
Listen to a Brothers in Arms Interview:
Rhode Island Regiment.
Interpreter Greg James discusses the determination of the members of an all-black regiment of soldiers.
(MP3, 3.1Mb) || View transcript
Listen to an Independence Day Interview:
Harvey Bakari on Independence for African Americans.
Independence was not guaranteed for everyone in the nation's early days.
(MP3, 3.2Mb) || View transcript
These interviews are part of an ongoing series of podcasts available on the Colonial Williamsburg site.
Learn more.
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Historic Triangle