When an industrious slave named Willis Hodges Cromwell earned the money to obtain liberty for his wife--who then bought freedom for him and for their children--he set in motion a family saga that resounds today. His youngest son, John Wesley Cromwell, became an educator, lawyer, and newspaper publisher--and one of the most influential men of letters in the generation that bridged Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois. Now, in Unveiled Voices, Unvarnished Memories, his granddaughter, Adelaide M. Cromwell, documents the journey of her family from the slave marts of Annapolis to...
When an industrious slave named Willis Hodges Cromwell earned the money to obtain liberty for his wife--who then bought freedom for him and for...