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The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation : stories of my family's journey to freedom / John F. Baker Jr.
Van Pelt Library F444.W425 B35 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, John F., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baker, John F., 1962-.
- Tobacco farms.
- History.
- Plantation life.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans.
- Families.
- Wessyngton Plantation (Tenn.)--History.
- Wessyngton Plantation (Tenn.).
- Washington family.
- Baker, John F., 1962---Family.
- Baker, John F.
- African American families.
- African Americans--Genealogy.
- African Americans--Tennessee--Robertson County--Biography.
- Enslaved persons--Tennessee--Robertson County--Biography.
- Plantation life--Tennessee--Robertson County--History.
- Tobacco farms--Tennessee--Robertson County--History.
- Robertson County (Tenn.)--Antiquities.
- Robertson County (Tenn.).
- Tennessee--Robertson County.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Family histories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 419 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- The photo in my textbook
- That's Washington, where your people came from
- We walked every step of the way from Virginia to Tennessee
- We built that big house brick by brick
- By the sweat of their brows : the largest tobacco plantation in America
- It takes a whole village
- Working from can't to can't
- I couldn't hear nobody pray
- Wessyngton rebels
- Follow the north star
- On the road to freedom : Wessyngton under siege
- No longer under Washington control
- August the 8th
- In their own words
- The church in the hollow
- Digging for the truth
- Generations in transition
- Back through the centuries with DNA
- Epilogue: To honor our ancestors.
- Notes:
- Designed by Paul Dippolito.
- Jacket design by Laywan Kwan.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-392) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 9781416567400
- 1416567402
- OCLC:
- 227570665
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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