Wow, it sounds like you've done quote a bit of research yourself! Thank you for sharing. I'd love to go visit Lottie's grave one day too and just pay my respects to her. I'll be sure that you know when this book is published. Thanks so much for reading this newsletter! I'm encouraged.
I'm excited to learn of your ambition to write historical fiction. My first experience with this genre was "Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, which is his story of the battle of Gettysburg.
I have been to Lottie's grave in Crewe, VA. one of her relative's gravestone has a Masonic emblem on it. Now days masons are taboo with Baptist. Speaking of Baptist, slavery was an acceptable institution among them, supposedly its why the Baptist split creating Southern (SBC) denomination and northern (American) denomination. In the south the only churches that believed it to be unChristian were the Methodist and Friends (Quakers). But even the Methodist eventually split into Northern and Southern denominations. In my research one didn't have to be wealthy to own slaves. Many small farmers would have a family of slaves, and the masters would often work side by side with them in the fields. It was comparable to a small family farm owning a tractor and a combine today. In my family tree I have slave owners and I also have a Methodist preacher and Quakers who freed them. Anyway, let me know when you get published.
Wow, it sounds like you've done quote a bit of research yourself! Thank you for sharing. I'd love to go visit Lottie's grave one day too and just pay my respects to her. I'll be sure that you know when this book is published. Thanks so much for reading this newsletter! I'm encouraged.
I'm excited to learn of your ambition to write historical fiction. My first experience with this genre was "Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, which is his story of the battle of Gettysburg.
I have been to Lottie's grave in Crewe, VA. one of her relative's gravestone has a Masonic emblem on it. Now days masons are taboo with Baptist. Speaking of Baptist, slavery was an acceptable institution among them, supposedly its why the Baptist split creating Southern (SBC) denomination and northern (American) denomination. In the south the only churches that believed it to be unChristian were the Methodist and Friends (Quakers). But even the Methodist eventually split into Northern and Southern denominations. In my research one didn't have to be wealthy to own slaves. Many small farmers would have a family of slaves, and the masters would often work side by side with them in the fields. It was comparable to a small family farm owning a tractor and a combine today. In my family tree I have slave owners and I also have a Methodist preacher and Quakers who freed them. Anyway, let me know when you get published.