Viola Davis goes back to her roots for her 55th birthday.
On Instagram, the actress revealed that she owns the former plantation St. Matthews, South Carolina, bought where she was born 55 years ago. She shared a picture of the structure where her mother provided her with the caption, “The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story. Today at my 55th birthday. “I own it … all of it.”
“‘Live with you long enough to know why you were born,'” Cherokee Birth Blessing, “she added.
De How can you get away with murder star previously told Folk that she grew up seeing the estate, called the Singleton Plantation, as a place of joy, despite its dark history.
“I think I read one slave story of someone who was terrible on that plantation. 160 acres of land, and my grandfather was a sharecropper. Most of my uncles and cousins, they are farmers. That is the choice they make. had, “she said, adding,” my grandmother’s house was a one-room loft. I have a picture of it on my phone because I find it a beautiful image. “
