This post relates to the period of forthcoming political and civil upheaval commencing from the year1860 and lasting for almost half a decade from 1860. The events transpired during this phase changed my life in ways that my forefathers could not have imagined. My name is Mary Garner and I was born in a slave colony in a large cotton plantation situated near Mississippi river in the Mississippi County located in the state of Arkansas. I lived in a small log cabin that was without any door and window with my parents and four of my other siblings My Continue reading...