Description: A history of one Tennessee Emancipation town
Brief description: Learotha Williams Jr. is a professor of African American, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University and coordinator of the North Nashville Heritage Project.
Review Quotes: "In this book, Gilbert and Williams accomplish two profound tasks. First, they present a contextual history of the African American experience at the macro level, from the institution of slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, the era of Jim Crow and the Great Migration. At the same time, Gilbert weaves personal and insightful micro-histories that contain elements of this larger history, derived from the perspective of her beloved ancestral community, Promised Land."
--Tracy Jepson, Project Director for The Tennessee African American Historical Group