HAMPTON, Va. — Celebrating the country’s 250th birthday is an opportunity to highlight American history here in Hampton Roads. A tree on the campus of Hampton University stands as a living part of that history.
“The historic significance is substantial,” HU professor Bev-Freda Jackson said about the tree known as the Emancipation Oak. “The first reading in the south of the Emancipation Proclamation happened here.”
Watch: More than 300-year-old ‘Emancipation Oak’ at Hampton University serves as living witness to history…