Title: My father's name
Description: The author, seeking to find his grandfather's old home, follows his family history back to his great great grandfather who was born a slave and died a free man with forty acres.
Subjects: Freedmen, Reconstruction, Family, Slaves, Jackson family, Social conditions, African Americans, Biography, African americans, virginia, Virginia, biography, United states, social conditions, 1865-1945, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Freed persons
Places: United States, Virginia
People: Lawrence Patrick Jackson
Time periods: 1865-1918