A book on the efforts of former slaves to find their lost family members after the Civil War will be the subject of an event at Willard Library in Battle Creek Monday.
One chapter highlights the story of Emeline Skipworth, who escaped slavery in Kentucky before the war, and, through the Underground Railroad, was able to make it to Battle Creek.
But when she fled, she left her sister. They would not be reunited until 1885, forty years after she escaped…