When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's g

A historical account of the efforts of nine African-American students to integrate Central High School draws on interviews to offer insight into the behind-the-

Traces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his fa

This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Govern