SmithsonianMag.com: Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears

Smithsonian Magazine America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South By Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence November 2015 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/ When Delores McQuinn was growing up, her father told her a story about a search for the family’s roots. He said his own father knew the…