The Story of a Slave's Death

In the early 18 sixties, a family in Kentucky owned a number of slaves. The husband kept chains in the basement for times when he wanted to exercise a bit more discipline. When the civil war broke out, word began to spread among the enslaved people of the south that it would be better to escape and run north. Finally, the entire group of slaves left the homestead and headed north - except for two still chained up in their captor's home. Fueled by his anger, he descended into the basement where he shot and killed both captive men. Later, after he had presumably cooled off, he was said to have buried the bodies right there in the cellar. And then months