Bennett Parten

“Cobb’s power seemed to put the entire Confederate project into perspective, revealing in the starkest of terms the moral emptiness in the idea of a slaveholder’s republic.”
― Bennett Parten, Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation

“Glory be to God, we are free!’ ” recalled James M. Simms, a formerly enslaved person born in Savannah and once a pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, the first black Baptist congregation in North America.”
― Bennett Parten, Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation