Somerset Homecoming Recovering a Lost Heritage
by Dorothy Spruill Redford, Michael D'Orso
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."
HistoryUnited StatesState & LocalSouth (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)ReferenceGenealogy & Heraldry
RELEASED1988
PUBLISHERDoubleday
LENGTH266
LANGUAGEEN
Somerset Homecoming Recovering a Lost Heritage
by Dorothy Spruill Redford, Michael D'Orso
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."
HistoryUnited StatesState & LocalSouth (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)ReferenceGenealogy & HeraldrySocial ScienceEthnic Studies
RELEASED1988
PUBLISHERDoubleday
LENGTH266
LANGUAGEEN