Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation
Subtitle: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781416570332
Subjects: Washington family; African american families; African americans, genealogy; African americans, tennessee; African americans, biography; Slaves, united states; Plantation life; Tennessee, history
Table of contents: title: The photo in my textbook; title: That's Washington, where your people came from; title: We walked every step of the way from Virginia to Tennessee; title: We built that big house brick by brick; title: By the sweat of their brows : the largest tobacco plantation in America; title: It takes a whole village; title: Working from can't to can't; title: I couldn't hear nobody pray; title: Wessyngton rebels; title: Follow the north star; title: On the road to freedom : Wessyngton under siege; title: No longer under Washington control; title: August the 8th; title: In their own words; title: The church in the hollow; title: Digging for the truth; title: Generations in transition; title: Back through the centuries with DNA; title: Epilogue: To honor our ancestors