So im taking this class on 'race and revolution', and I have had to read about white people being racist and control a slave population, etc, etc. It's kind of depressing to think/ wonder if my parents before me ever owned slaves, what they thought when they were around, etc.

So i go over to my grandmothers house and she starts telling me that my great great great great great great stepmother (not really of relations or blood). She was wirtten about in this book called "The Southern Insurrection" by Drewery (no first name of the author, but def. of white descent.

Well, when she was 12 she was in school and according to the accounts(of a white person) and I summaries:

The insurrection (Nat Turner's rebellion) was at this place called Waller's which was a distillery, blacksmith shop, wheelwright shop, and a School. Waller (the owner of all this ) told his older sons to go get the childern when heard of the "Negroes" comming, and to load the guns. Crocker was the [rincipal, and when told of the insurregence comming it was to late and they were allready up on them. The insuregence killed the negroe blacksmith ( i think he was a traitor to them?) and a few other family memebers before a little girl ran acroos the feilds. She was Clarinda Jones( my great x 6 stepmother) and the insurrection shot her in the leg. She fell into the weeds, and stayed motionless, but her older sister was found and killed..... when asked how she survived and I quote," The Lord helped me." pg 94.

Now I wrote that almost like the book (minus the description of blacks, which was the dominant word used in the book), but i just can't tell what is fact and fiction. Thsi book is very onesided, and I would love to find a book written by the other about this, But i have not.

It makes the story more interesting that someone in my family was a part of this, Clarinda Jones lived to be 40 and survived with that same bullet in her leg her whole life.