SCENE 2-1b : The Great House Farm

Frederick is haunted by the enslaved songs sung in the deep forest

One of the experiences that most haunted Fredrick as a child in his earliest period on the planation was hearing the almost indescribable chants and lamentations of the enslaved individuals when they were summoned to work at the Great House Farm.

Typically seen as a privilege Fredericks recollection of their songs as they trudged their way through the woods to the Great House Farm would strike him as incredibly peculiar, and highly disturbing, haunting him often in later life when he recalled these events.

Wye House, which was Colonel Lloyds home, still stands today and in roughly 42,000 acres of land and at its height had around 1,000 slaves working on it. Owned by the Lloyd family since it was built in 1784 it is still lived in by the latest descendent of the family.

The People of Wye House have been allowed access to the family archives and have established the names of the enslaved and Frederick appears, with his siblings, in Aaron Anthony's Census of 1827 and in the subsequent years.