The experiences of slavery and the difficult transition to freedom made by the lower Chattahoochee Valley’s black community remain influential landmarks in regional history. They have been remembered for well over a century as both as a defining period of endurance and a time of incredible suffering that distinctly shaped our local cultural development. Even today, they resonate as emotional, but difficult to understand, chapters in history. Taken together, these eras serve as vivid reminders of the complexity of the past and its continuing influence on the present.
1. Frank Menefee, an ex-slave
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, mesnp 010278
