In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield Plantation

by Daniel B Thorp and Daniel B. Thorp

Book Overview

In 1759, William Preston purchased sixteen enslaved Africans brought to America aboard the True Blue, an English slave ship. Over the next century, the Preston family enslaved more than two hundred individuals and used their labor to establish and operate Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg, Virginia. Daniel Thorp uncovers the stories of the men and women who were enslaved at Smithfield, one of the first plantations west of the Blue Ridge Mountains,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813947235
• ISBN13: 9780813947235
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"