Title: Toils, Snares and Tender Mercies One Southern Family's Story
Description: This book chronicles the history of an African-American family in Barbour County, Alabama.
Subjects: reconstruction, freedmen, sharecroppers, Willie Lee Jenkins lynched in Barbour County, Alabama in 1922, The 28th of May Emancipation Celebration, sharecropping
Places: towns and communities in Barbour County Alabama: Batesville, Clayton, Spring Hill, Comer, Hawkinsville, Lugo, White Oak, and Eufaula
People: Elijah Franklin, Willie Lee Franklin, Willie Jenkins, Ben Colbert, Ben Leonard, Tom Zanders, Alabama Governor George Wallace, Dr. Thomas V. McCoo, James "Buddy" Sims, Queen Ester Colbert Knox, Mrs. Viola Sylvester
Time periods: circa 1860-1983