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A Remarkable Story Of Slavery, Civil War, Forbidden Love, Implicit Relations, And The Decision That Forever Changed A Family in The Knight Family Legacy: One Family's Story
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton's intricate and meticulously researched Historical Biography/Autobiography of her husband's ancestors, The Knight Family Legacy: One
Family's Story gives an eye-opening glimpse into the complex, often contradictory story of Major John Knight Jr. and those around him-a world where the gray areas crowd out black and white.
Pembroke Pines, FL - August 11, 2010 - Historical Biographer/ Autobiographer Marilyn
R. Hill-Sutton announces the release of The Knight Family Legacy: One Family's Story.
This remarkable true-life story tells the tale of Major John Knight Jr.-a White plantation owner, attorney, and decorated Confederate Civil War veteran and reveals the Knight family's slave-owning history; Major John Knight's valor during the Civil War; the forbidden union between him and his mulatto slave, Violet Knight; his decision to leave his 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.
In 1886, Major John Knight Jr. summoned five witnesses to his deathbed. There, he did something extraordinary: He bequeathed his former slaves his estate. What followed is a 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.
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton's new historical biography/autobiography, a seven year undertaking, is a story of courage and incredible inner strength. Her successful venture is a testament that anyone can trace their ancestry. She delves deep into the psyche of every day people in an era and time when black-white relationships were taboo, while providing a revelation that we, as a people, are more one than many. She surreptitiously explores commonalities that bridge real and/or perceived barriers that divide us-barriers often attributed to national origin, ethnicity, class, and socio-economic factors. Finally, she examines the intent of the heart and the intrinsic bonds of family-only to uncover that the heart and family are indeed unifying forces.
The Knight Family Legacy: One Family's Story is perfect for Civil War buffs, Slavery Historians, Social Historians, 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.
About the book:
The Knight Family Legacy by Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton
ISBN: 978-1432743055
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Date of publish: June 30, 2010
Pages: 600
S.R.P.: $40.95
About the author:
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton is the wife of Joseph Sutton, a Knight family descendent. After a career in the insurance and healthcare industries, she embarked on a journey to research and document the stories that had been passed down by Knight ancestors by word-of-mouth for more than a century. Historical facts were meticulously traced through court records, countless historical documents, numerous courthouse and cemetery visits, and endless interviews with family members. Her love for history, and her husband's family legacy, was the driving force behind the quest to trace the Knight family's trajectory from the scourge of slavery through their many immeasurable triumphs.
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