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| Genealogist Drusilla Pair (left) and Fields descendant and Park Ranger Ajena Rogers (right) presented the "Flight to Freedom Program" at Fort Monroe on Saturday, August 11, 2012. |
Flight
to Freedom: The Fields Family and
Freedom's Fortress program was conducted at Fort Monroe on Saturday, August 11,
2012 with Ms. Drusilla Pair, genealogical researcher and Park Ranger, Ms. Ajena
Rogers, historical interpreter and a Fields family descendant. The program was a dramatic interpretation of the
Fields family’s escape from enslavement in Hanover County, VA to freedom at Fort Monroe, VA during the Civil War.
On August 12, 2012, The Virginian Pilot Newspaper published an article about the Flight to Freedom Program: "Descendant Chronicles Life of Slave at Fort Monroe."
On August 12, 2012, The Virginian Pilot Newspaper published an article about the Flight to Freedom Program: "Descendant Chronicles Life of Slave at Fort Monroe."
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| Drusilla Pair waiting for her cue. |
Ajena Rogers portraying her ancestor, Martha Ann Berkeley Fields (1813-1891)
