For 30 years Thelma Williams has spent more time with Anthony and Isabella and their child, William, than she has with many of her living relatives. She sneaks out to libraries to be with them. She searches for them in court records. She smiles at their ghosts as she drives past the old forts and plantations that shaped their lives: Fort Monroe, where they were sold to an English sea captain; Jamestown where William was baptized, Blue Bird Gap Farm where their slave descendants may have lived. Read More