Articles by ghill213

So, by this time we have all heard that a former president has been found guilty by a jury of his peers and is now a convicted felon. Of course, like a lot of felons […]

Welcome back to Part II of Franklin & Armfield. In our last article we stopped just before the Forks at the Road slave market was established in Natchez, Mississippi… but before we go on, I […]

So, if you just casually heard the name Franklin & Armfield bandied about, depending on what click you were in, you might think they were a couple of designers if you were into fashion, if […]

I will always remember the first day I moved into my home. Anticipating the date I would be moving into my new home, I had moved out of my apartment and moved in with my […]

Federal Writers’ Project: Slave Narrative Project I usually write history from a secondhand point of view. Luckily for us, the people who lived in those times left a written record of what it was like. […]

Let’s get right down to it, from the beginning, George Washington owned more slaves than Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in “Gone With The Wind”… The first president of the United States had enslaved more […]

I haven’t written about a black icon in ages. You know as a young child, I had heard the name Sojourner Truth in class, but we never quite covered why she was so important in […]

Ebenezer Creek is in Effingham County, Georgia. Why in the Effingham they would call it that, I don’t even know. It’s just Effingham crazy… anyway, our story begins there. So, let’s get some historical perspective […]