You're Going to Buy the Place, Aren't You?: A House with a Long Forgotten Past

In the book one person, Negro Alexander, is very important but never appears in the story. But .he is the only real person in the book - all others are fictional. There are only two things known about Negro Alexander; he was alive in 1828 and he was a slave at that time in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the book the inventory in which Alexander is listed he is named Negro Alexander. The inventory, the house, and the cistern are all real. The town, Lenoir, and all of the characters are...