The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom has been released in trade paperback and is an excellent resource for teachers and educators. The book chronicles the African American experience from slavery to freedom. It has more than 100 photographs and portraits of African Americans who were once enslaved. The book covers many aspects of plantation slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Genealogy, and DNA testing.
http://books.simonandschuster.net/Washingtons-of-Wessyngton-Plantation/John-F-Baker-Jr/9781416567417
Tags: African American Genealogy, African History, American History, American Slavery, Black Genealogy, black history, Civil War, DNA Testing, Genealogy & DNA, Jim Crow, plantation slavery, Reconstruction, slave trade, Southern Plantations