Franklin and Southampton County
Franklin and Southampton County are a statistical region in Central Virginia made up by Franklin, an independent city with around 8,500 citizens, and Southampton County, a county just short of 20,000 citizens.
Settlements
[edit]- Franklin
- Boykins
- Branchville
- Capron
- Courtland, the county seat
- Ivor
- Newsoms
Understand
[edit]Some of the most famous fugitives from slavery were born in this county; see transatlantic slave trade and Black Belt for context.
- John Brown (c.1810 – 1876, not to be confused with the namesake abolitionist) is known for his 1855 memoir Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England.
- Anthony W. Gardiner became the ninth President of Liberia
- Dred Scott was subject to the Dredd Scott decision.
- Nat Turner led the Nat Turner rebellion.