Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other," Jefferson wrote a fellow politician almost 30 years after Carter's deed of gift. Meriwether Gilmore, who grew up in Westmoreland County, where Carter's Nomini Hall estate once spanned 2,000 acres, is related to Carter on her mother's side. The Washington, DC, attorney and government contractor descends from the Thompsons and Newmans, of whom 50 were listed in Carter's deed of gift. Here, Regina Baylor, a descendant of nine WIlson family members who Carter freed, and Carter descendant Charles Belfield pose with the sign. The deed of gift assisted her work for a book on her ancestors , the Gumbys, 11 of whom Carter freed.

Source: CNN September 05, 2021 08:03 UTC