Book Talk with Dr. Walter Curry: The Story of Martha Kitchings Seawright Ellison

Come join Dr. Walter Curry and discover the story of Martha Kitchings Seawright Ellison’s life, featuring the local history of the Antebellum Period and Civil War in Barnwell County during Martha’s enslavement; a personal account of Martha’s life on the Phillips Plantation during the Reconstruction Era in Barnwell County; the circumstances that involved Martha’s marriages to two husbands; and post Reconstruction era through the Gilded Age (1875-1900) during Martha’s life in Aiken County, South Carolina.