![]() ![]() Their slaveholder, Blake Mitchell, immediately declared them free - even as they still held his horse in place, waiting for whatever was to come next." "At that moment, as the Confederacy's 150-year mourning period began," writes Twitty in his new book, The Cooking Gene, "my great-great grandfather and his brother counted themselves among the first black people to find out that the long nightmare of American slavery - nearly three centuries in the making - was over. He was one of the first slaves to know that the war was over. ![]() ![]() Lee emerge from McLean House in Appomattox, Va., after surrendering to General Ulysses S. When he was 15, Elijah Mitchell, Twitty's great-great-grandfather, saw General Robert E. ![]()
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