Recovering a Lost Heritage
by
Dorothy Spruill Redford
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
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...