Owens-Lalude, Judith C.

Judith C. Owens-Lalude is the great-granddaughter of George Henry "Pap" Johnson, who was born in 1850 and was enslaved with his mother, Clarissa. They lived on Ben Miller's six-hundred-acre farm in North Central Kentucky, now less than an hour's drive from Louisville, Kentucky, where Owens-Lalude grew up and resides today. After listening to tales told by her family's closest members about their ancestors, she wanted to know more and visited the farm where her ancestors had been enslaved. She strolled the grounds, reflected at the fireplace hearth where a slave cabin once stood, wandered along...