Kheir Fakhreldin, University Archivist at Chicago State University and chair of CAA's Archives and Archivists of Color (AAC) interest group, gave a talk to Brookfield Library's Genealogy Club on August 13, 2024 about F. D. Cossitt, the founder of La Grange, who owned 127 slaves in Tennessee before he came north during the Civil War. Kheir discussed the complicated history of Tennessee Unionism and Cossitt's Southern Claims Commission file which details his assistance to the Union Army and includes testimony on his behalf from a former Union general, an overseer on his plantations, and one of his former slaves.

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