Great Hopes Plantation
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On their third day in Williamsburg, Chesapeake Semester students were given assignments to explore. What messages about history are portrayed here? How did the life of the free and the enslaved affect each other? In what ways did the foodways of the colonial culture reflect the environment in which they live?To address these questions and others, students visited the Great Hopes Plantation, a recreated 18th-century Virginia farm and strolled down Duke of Gloucester St., striking up conversations with reenactors to inform them of the past.
At Great Hopes Plantation students spoke with reenactors to capture some of the details of everyday life in 18th-century Virginia.
Mike Hardesty ’05
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Wrapping up an informative few days at Colonial Williamsburg, Chesapeake Semester students progress onward up the James River to one of the few remaining historical plantations that line its shores. They arrive at the Shirley Plantation to contrast the town life of Williamsburg with the rural life of the country side.
In the afternoon they would proceed to Historic St. Mary’s City to arrive in time for their Native American Day.
