While Carol Bartlett was going through her late cherished aunt’s belongings, she discovered a handwritten piece of paper with the word “slaves” and a list of names.
The list sparked a memory of her aunt Frances, who once told her, “When my mother turned 12, they gave her a girl.”
After a lot of research, Bartlett and her family discovered that their ancestors, the Graves family, owned a cotton plantation in Lowndes County using enslaved people…