Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage »

Dorothy Spruill Redford is now executive director of North Carolina's Somerset Place State Historic Site in Creswell, the antebellum plantation on which four generations of her enslaved ancestors lived.

Chronicles the author's ten-year quest to trace the history of her enslaved ancestors and her successful efforts to reunite more than 2,000 of their descendants at Somerset Place, the original plantation, now a historic site in North Carolina.

Publishers Weekly

Redford, born into a black family of Columbia, N.C., in 1943, researched her roots over a period of 10 years. ``There are moments of drama, high humor and sorrow in Redford's odyssey. It's a joy to share her triumph at identifying her forebears, then bringing together 2000 of their descendants in 1986. The homecoming was at Somerset Place, the plantation in North Carolina where their ancestors were slaves,'' said PW. Photos. (Aug.)

Acknowledgments Beginnings
"Over de River"
The Road Home The Arrival Voices from the Past Connecting Somerset Homecoming Epilogue Sources