Somerset Homecoming Recovering a Lost Heritage

Name: Somerset Homecoming Recovering a Lost Heritage
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ISBN: 9780807848432

ISBN-10: 0807848433

ISBN-13: 9780807848432

Edition: 2000

Authors: Dorothy Spruill Redford

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In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina--and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation's fields at the height of its prosperity; but nearly 125 years later, the only remembrance of their lives at Somerset, now a state historic site, was a lonely wooden sign marked "Site of Slave Quarters." Somerset Homecoming, first published in 1989, is the story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place. Traveling down winding southern roads, through county courthouses and state archives, and onto the front porches of…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 8.05" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Beginnings


'Over de River'


The Road Home


The Arrival


Voices from the Past


Connecting


Somerset Homecoming


Epilogue


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