If you agree that there’s too much emphasis on “how bad Slavery was,” this is not the place for you.

I have chronicled the terrible traumas that slavery inflicted on black people in what is now Wilson County. I will continue to do so. If you want the hopeful, positive, apologist, unwoke version of the history of American slavery, try the Smithsonian museums in about six months.

The Wilson Ledger, 19 February 1861.

Read about J.W. Hamlet and Jacob D. Farmer and their Negro dogs here.