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The Force of a Feather: the Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom.(Brief Article)
Demaratus, DeEtta. The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom. Apr. 2002. 240p. illus. Univ. of Utah, $27.95 (0-87480-714-X). 306.6
In the 1850s, lohn Smith, a failed Mississippi farmer, took his family--including two slave women and their children--on a trek out west to help establish a Mormon settlement in California, a free state. Disappointed at his prospects, Smith later decided to move to Texas. The move meant the reenslavement of the women and their children, some of whom had been born free. The fascinating court challenge ...
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