Interview with Allen Green, basketmaker, Sapelo Island, Georgia, 1977 July 18

@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Rosenbaum, Art

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Art Rosenbaum interviews Allen Green, a basketmaker in Sapelo Island, Georgia. Green talks about learning basketmaking as a child in 1918 and eventually developing it into a trade. Currently is baskets are sold to people from all over the world. He learned basketmaking from his grandfather, Allen Smith, who was a slave. He discusses the difference between his baskets and his grandfather's, which were used for volume measurement. Run time: 00:24:06.

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Keywords

Artisans
Basket Makers
Basket Making
Georgia
Sapelo Island
Slaver
Slavery