Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia by Douglas B. Chambers

Murder at Montpelier: Igbo Africans in Virginia

Douglas B. Chambers

325 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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In 1732 Ambrose Madison, grandfather of the future president, languished for weeks in a sickbed then died. The death, soon after his arrival on the plantation, bore hallmarks of what planters assumed to be traditional African medicine. African sla...

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