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A Remarkable Story of Slavery,
Forbidden Love, and the Decision that Forever Changed a Family
In 1886, Maj. John Knight Jr.—a White plantation owner, attorney, and decorated Confederate Civil War veteran—summoned five witnesses to his deathbed. There, he did something extraordinary: He bequeathed his estate to his former slaves.
What followed is an incredible true-life story of courage, love, epic legal battles, and one remarkable turnabout: only years after being in bondage, Knight’s former slaves and their descendants entered the plantation house as masters of their domain—and their future.
Meticulously researched, The Knight Family Legacy: One Family’s Story, gives an eye-opening glimpse into the complex, often contradictory life story of Knight and those around him—a world where the gray areas crowd out black and white. Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton traces the facts through court records, countless historical documents, numerous courthouse and cemetery visits, and endless interviews with family members—many of which are reprinted here.
The candid account that emerges reveals the Knight family’s slave-owning history; Maj. Knight’s valor during the Civil War; the forbidden union between him and his mulatto slave, Violet Knight; his decision to leave the estate to Violet and their children; an unprecedented court battle for control of the Knight estate by heirs; and son Jacob C. Knight’s courageous efforts to ensure his father’s deathbed wishes were carried out.
Ambitious in scope and far-reaching in conclusions, The Knight Family Legacy is a must-read for Civil War buffs, slavery, social, and cultural historians, genealogists and family history enthusiasts, and anyone with a genuine love for history and the implicit, although complex, and, often contradictory, human interactions of a foregone era.
Hardback
Format: 7 x 10 Black & White Casebound, 600 pages
Publisher: Outskirts Press (Jun 30, 2010)
ISBN10: 1432743112
ISBN13: 9781432743116
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton is the wife of Joseph Sutton, a Knight family descendant. After a career in the insurance and healthcare industries, she embarked on a journey to research and document the stories that have been passed down by ancestors through word-of-mouth for more than a century. Her love for history, and her husband’s family legacy, was the driving force behind the quest to trace the family’s trajectory from the scourge of slavery through their many immeasurable triumphs. |
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