through the tears and very loud sobbing, am posting this for posterity:
❝ In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville.
His value was placed at $1,400.
On another surviving document, Sheppard signed his name with an X.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.❞
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/11/keisha-lance-bottoms-crawfordville-governors-mansion/
