There has been renewed interest in making a feature length documentary on Adam Francis Plummer. Above is a short 6 minute documentary film about the Maryland slave, Plummer who kept a diary that generations later reunited his descendants.
Adam Francis Plummer, a self-taught slave, lived his life in Prince Georges County, Maryland. Plummer secretly kept and wrote a diary that was later discovered by his descendants and donated to the Smithsonian Institution. There the diary was researched, investigated, restored, and prepped for exhibition.
The diary's immediate legacy is a book based on the entries in the diary and written by Plummer's daughter, Nellie Plummer. The book, Out of the Depths, the Triumph of the Cross, has served to unite previously disconnected family members.
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For more on Adam Francis Plummer: www.anacostia.si.edu/Plummer/Plummer_Home.htm
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