tv Touring Winston- Salem CSPAN March 17, 2018 11:26am-11:28am EDT
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others at this, let's get a good snippet of who those individuals and what part they played into the community functioning? there are many africans, people who spoke various languages, playing an important part in how interaction happen with travelers that passed through the town. that came to the tavern because that was your first interacting. goal again, is to find who these people were. what their lives were. where it led. we are also not just interested in before civil war and back, we are taking the hidden town project through the civil war into reconstruction. into the jim crow era. into the present day. what we are already finding, slavery in salem started to really point to what we have today as predominantly
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african-american communities. we can start to see the migrations that are standard in the united states with urban centers and we can start to see why and how those were related to moravian issues. transfer answer your question, what is my favorite story? the anticipation of all the other stories of aspiration that are going to come out of the hidden town project. weekend,: this is joiningistory tv" our spectrum cable partners to showcase the history of winston-salem, north carolina. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit www.c-span.org. we continue now with our look at the history of winston-salem. >> there is a real sense of history in this town, for lots of people who have been here a while.
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