The second volume in the Arcadia series about Botetourt County. The author revisits places in the first book, focusing on the people who lived and worked there.

Descendants of the immigrant family, Johannes Flinner and his wife Anna, married ca 1740 in Germany, who immigrated with their older children to America ; younger children were born in Pennsylvania and/or Maryland.

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James Redfearn was born between 1705 and 1711, probably in Virginia or Maryland. He married Rachel and they had seven children. He probably died in Guilford County, North Carolina between 1768 and 1779. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Arkansas, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and California.

William MacKeachey (d. ca 1780) in Richmond County, North Carolina. He had at least three sons: James (1749-1823), who married Mary Jane Jackson about 1780; John (1750-1823), who married Martha Jackson in 1780; and George (ca. 1755-1888), who married Sarah McFarland in 1799. Their descendants lived throughout the South, in California, Texas and elsewhere.

This book is the true story of Rose Gatliff, a slave who used the courts of Kentucky to wrest freedom from those who held her family in bondage. Despite being held in a slave State and despite her rights being judged by white, slaveholding men, she prevailed. Her persistence, determination and intelligence made her, as one witness phrased it, "the best lawyer" her family had. This is also the story of the witnesses for and against Rose, all white, who speak to us in their own words, taken from case documents in the State Archives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Follow Rose as she is taken from her mother in Virginia to Kentucky and passed from Master to Master until 1833, when she began a legal process covering four States, multiple Kentucky counties, four trials, an appeal and nearly nineteen years and see why her descendants should be proud of her.