Part travel journal, part memoir, part historical investigation, all in service to revealing the struggle, courage and losses of the men we loved and who suffered through the White Redemption period of early 20th century Southern life.
Hatchie River bottom, Tennessee
Bridges were a favored site to enact a lynching and to display the body of the victim
1937 steel bridge
The Narrator's favorite breakfast location on her pilgrimage.
One of the pleasures of research road trips
The town founded by the Freedpeople escaping the retribution of White Redemption movement at the end of Reconstruction
Nicodemous Kansas: Founded by the Exodusters
A poster by Benjamin "Pap" Singleton inspired by God to organize of the Exodusters
Recruiting Freedpeople to safety
Celebrating the liberation of a Mississippi Washateria by the young Mavis Staples
The Author's Idea of Sightseeing
WW I Black Regiment
You will have to read the book
Virgil and Albert’s favorite ride
The crop that will make white forced labor plantation owners rich and kidnapped Africans slaves
Cotton Field in Bloom
The lynching site
Tipton County
Nathaniel Dowd Williams taught high school, covered the Black news in west Tennessee and hosted one of the first Black music radio show.
Nat D. Williams
Rebecca O. Johnson explores the history and landscape of dispossession in the lives of Black and Brown People of Color.
The machine that made cotton profitable and also useful in unspeakable ways in the forced labor plantations.