Slavery documents from Southern saltmakers shed light on dark history
Inside the cramped and dusty attic overlooking the pale green Kanawha River in the Appalachian Mountains, stacks of 100-year-old business records — deposit books, letters from customers, employee records — balanced precariously on cabinets, lined shelves and sat scattered across the wooden floor.Siblings Nancy Bruns and Lewis Payne stumbled upon…
bubmagApril 16, 2020