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Prologue

Chapter 1: The Photo in My Textbook

Chapter 2: That's Washington, Where Your People Came From

Chapter 3: We Walked Every Step of the Way from Virginia to Tennessee

Chapter 4: We Built That Big House Brick by Brick

Chapter 5: By the Sweat of Their Brows: The Largest Tobacco Plantation in America

Chapter 6: It Takes a Whole Village

Chapter 7: Working from Can't to Can't

Chapter 8: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

Chapter 9: Wessyngton Rebels

Chapter 10: Follow the North Star

Chapter 11: On the Road to Freedom: Wessyngton Under Siege

Chapter 12: No Longer Under Washington Control

Chapter 13: August the 8th

Chapter 14: In Their Own Words

Chapter 15: The Church in the Hollow

Chapter 16: Digging for the Truth

Chapter 17: Generations in Transition

Chapter 18: Back Through the Centuries with DNA

Epilogue: To Honor Our Ancestors

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography of Primary Sources

Selected Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index