Terry Alford is an author, historian, and professor emeritus at Northern Virginia Community College. He is the author of Fortune's Fool, a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, and Prince Among Slaves, among other books. He lives in Annandale, Virginia.
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In the 1820s, two families, unknown to each other, worked on farms in the American wilderness. It seemed unlikely that the families would ever meet-and yet, they did. The son of one family, the famed actor John Wilkes Booth, killed the son of the other, P... SEE MORE