About this episode
The episode explores the lives of the Snead brothers during the Civil War and the impact of war on their family and enslaved people.
March 1849. Stone Creek, Johnston County. Two thousand acres of cotton. Forty-five enslaved people. And a family about to be orphaned by death — then torn apart by war. The Snead brothers didn't start the Civil War. But they lived it up close — in the letters they wrote home, in the hands who slowed their work when news of Lincoln spread, in a family Bible where "Harriet and children gone to freedom, 1863" was entered like any other fact. Four brothers. Forty-five souls. One plantation watching the world crack open. This is People Get Ready.
Topics covered
- Civil War
- enslavement
- family
- plantation
Keywords
- Snead brothers
- Johnston County
- letters
- family Bible
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Bible
Places: Stone Creek, Johnston County
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