In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South by Loren Schweninger, John Hope Franklin

In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South

Loren Schweninger, John Hope Franklin

286 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
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The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land o...

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