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Article: In Search of the Promised Land.(BookSHELF)(In Search Of The Promised Land: A Slave Family In The Old South (New Narratives in American History) book by John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger)(Book Review)
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- August 1, 2005
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IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: A SLAVE FAMILY IN THE OLD SOUTH (Oxford University Press, $23), by noted historian John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, tells the true story of one family's march toward freedom.
The story begins with Sally Thomas, the matriarch, who went from serving as a slave on a tobacco plantation in Virginia to becoming a so-called "virtually-free" slave who went on to run her own business of cleaning fine apparel in Nashville, Tenn. She even earned enough money to buy one of her sons, James Thomas, out of slavery. "Born in the year of the Constitutional Convention, Sally was about 30 years old when she made the journey to Tennessee" the ...