Has anyone read this historical fiction book or know about the court case? Free in Chains by Mary B. Kegley, author, attorney, and researcher "Based on a true story filed in court papers, Free in Chains tells the unimaginable story of an Indian slave, Rachel Findlay. Although Indian slavery was illegal in Virginia at the time and Rachel was freed from those chains in Williamsburg in 1773, she was taken from Powhatan County to the frontier of Virginia before she could be truly free. There, her master, Mitchell Clay, sold her and her daughter as Negro slaves to John Draper, even though he knew they were entitled to their freedom. In what is now Pulaski County, Rachel was held illegally in slavery until 1820 when she was about sixty-seven years old. Her persistence in obtaining her freedom brought her to a seven-year court battle which eventually gave forty-two of her descendants the right to live in freedom." It's hard to think of our ancestors doing anything so totally wrong, but in reality, they were just people. I wonder if this could have had anything to do with the Indian attack on Mitchell's family. A fellow researcher in Wythe Co., VA told me about the book. I found info about the book via a Google search on Mary Kegley. Susan Richmond WV Roadbuilders - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~richmond/ _________________________________________________________________ Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the most of your high-speed experience. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=byoa/prem&ST=1