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”She knew that the estates as old as Tranquility—whether they stood in the North or the South—away held secrets.”

“ . . . It was John Cummings, a Louisiana trial lawyer, who first tried this on a large scale, with the Whitney Plantation near New Orleans. That was a sugar plantation. . . They’ve done some powerful work down there, especially with sculpture to portray how slavery affected children. It’ll take your breath away. People have no clue what slavery truly was in this country.”

“Anyway the thing was done. He supposed he felt a sort of Shakespearean conviction about the rightness of his actions on this day. For if a man wasn’t willing to kill to be king. . . He had no business on the throne.”