Thomas E. Williams' Silverstreet: A family's journey from the fields of South Carolina to the heart of Baltimore

A true American family saga, from slavery in South Carolina to freedom in Baltimore. In 1837, a seven-year-old girl named Mariah is forced from her mother's arms on a Virginia plantation and sold away. She ends up at Silverstreet, the South Carolina cotton plantation of John Hopkins Williams, the man who will one day father her son. From that beginning comes a family whose story spans nearly two centuries. Butler Henry Williams, born enslaved to a mother who was owned by his own father, com...