The Life of Robert Carter III: His Colonial Williamsburg House and 500+ Lives Freed
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The Life of Robert Carter III: His Colonial Williamsburg House and 500+ Lives Freed. Step inside the house, explore its grounds, and discover the story of the man who made a decision few saw coming.
Robert Carter III was born into one of colonial Virginia’s wealthiest families. The fortune waiting for him included vast lands and hundreds of people held in slavery. For most of his life, he stood among the very people who benefited from that system. Then he made a decision few in his position would have imagined.
The search for the man behind that decision begins at his house in Colonial Williamsburg. Beyond its doors, the city holds traces of the family he raised, the government he served, and the people whose lives were closely tied to his own.
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As Quest Capsule explores the house and follows Carter through Williamsburg’s historic landmarks and Art Museums, an extraordinary life begins to emerge.
But Williamsburg was only part of his story. Surviving accounts lead back to his childhood and onward to Nomini Hall, where a visitor’s diary offers a rare look inside the Carter household. Through years of loss, illness, and changing beliefs, a question grows harder to ignore: what could lead a man who had held people in slavery for nearly a lifetime to seek their freedom?
A Long Road to Freedom follows Robert Carter III to a choice that would affect more than 500 lives, and into the struggle that followed.