When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's g
Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his fa
Catalog prduced in conjunction with the Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation exhibition created by the Tennessee State Museum displayed at the Tenne
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is o
