Cover of Somerset Homecoming

Somerset Homecoming

Recovering a Lost Heritage

by Alex Haley, Dorothy Spruill Redford

1988 266 pages eng

In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina—and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation’s fields at the height of its prosperity; but nearly 125 years later, the only remembrance of their lives at Som…

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