american history tells about slavery and the freedsman's village model that was here on this site and on the cemetery. this was the first design, the first one they had and they improved on it through the south as time went they did not deport anyone. they had to work with people. they needed people to work and farm things. they had a system in place or people here. they just wanted them to blend in together and everyone working together. in the slaves quarter, there were a model of the original freedman's village that howard university, the architecture students did after arlington. we had it commissioned to begun and our chairman at the time was doctor williams who was the leader in making that happen. during the troop we found out that freedman's village -- when she was here, she told stories of the under ground railroad. how people were empowered to get out of slavery and go north where they could be free. she was an abolitionist and someone who'll teach how to read and write and teach other slaves how to read and writewrite. my grandfather, shelter had kids and one of his kids we