slaveholders

A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.

Dana is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Dana, who is Black, has been summoned to save Rufus, the White son of a plantation owner, who is drowning. She is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters and each time her stays grow longer and more dangerous. She begins to worry that her 21st century life is ending and she will be asked to live permanently in the 19th century as a slave.

Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space from her loving home in 1970s California to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it.

A biography of James Henry Hammond, one-time governor of South Carolina, discussing his ambition to conquer pre-Civil War society, his money-making farm management techniques, his political career, and his dedication to preserving the southern way of life.

A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.

The author, a descendant of Charleston plantation owner Elias Ball, tells about his experiences attempting to trace the history of his family and the genealogies of the slave families once owned by the Balls.

Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls in 1846. While there, Cecelia made the decision to cross the Niagara River to freedom in Canada, leaving her enslaved mother and brother behind in Kentucky. Relationships between escaped slaves and their former owners are rare and a cache of letters from Fanny to Cecelia confirms their extraordinary link. Cecelia and Fanny's lives were very different. Fanny stayed in Louisville, married, raised a family and endured the war and its aftermath with difficulty but was protected by her wealth and status. Cecelia also married in Canada but lost her husband and then moved to Rochester, New York and remarried. This husband went off to fight in the Civil War. In 1865 Cecelia returned to Louisville and renewed her contact with Fanny and her family. Fanny's son recorded all the information he could in 1899 and preserved the correspondence between Fanny and Cecelia.