Famed Actress Viola Davis Now Owns South Carolina Plantation Where She Was Born

Legendary actress Viola Davis (best know for her roles in Fences, The Help, Widows, and Doubt) has just announced that she now owns the South Carolina plantation where she was born.

Davis was born in a tiny home on South Carolina’s Singleton Plantation back in 1965, where her family worked as sharecroppers, planting and harvesting cotton for the plantation owners.

Now, 55 years, she just announced that she now owns the entire plantation;

 

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The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life….I own it….all of it. ・・・ “May you live long enough to know why you were born.” -Cherokee Birth Blessing-

A post shared by VIOLA DAVIS (@violadavis) on Aug 11, 2020 at 8:15am PDT

Viola has won an Oscar, Academy Award, Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, and 87 other awards so far in her powerful career.

One of her most recent projects was making a full-length documentary about the recent Charleston shooting with legendary NBA star and Davidson graduate Steph Curry. The documentary is call ‘Emanuel’ and it tells the story of the nine Black churchgoers who were murdered by a white supremacist at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

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