Samuel Blow Hines, The Story of a Judge, Bondage, and a President by J A Hines
In the 21st Century the laws of the United States clearly herald the abolishment of slavery.
In 18th Century Virginia, laws allowed for slavery's existence to flourish.
Thomas Jefferson inaccurately described slavery as holding a Wolf by its ears, we can neither safely hold it, nor release it. Self preservation on one hand, justice on the other.
In the Antebellum South, it was unusual to find men of stature opposing this barbaric institution.
Hidden in the attic of an 18th Century Virginia plantation were Samuel Blow Hines letters describing his life.
Our story is of two men and a legal system called Oyer and Terminer. A system of allegedly separate but equal laws that men were required to embrace and rule over.
Samuel Blow Hines, a student at William and Mary College in Virginia and his mentor St. George Tucker were good men. They lived through the turbulent times leading to the American Civil War.
Hines was a judge during the Nat Turner trial. He was given the best education and a large plantation by his parents. In the eight decades of his life he saw the nation expand west while his world contracted. When he passed at the ripe old age of 69 he had lost it all.
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