Franklin and Southampton County

Franklin and Southampton County are a statistical region in Central Virginia made up by Franklin, an independent city with around 8,500 citizens, and Southampton County, a county just short of 20,000 citizens.

Settlements

Franklin
Boykins
Branchville
Capron
Courtland, the county seat
Ivor
Newsoms

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Some of the most famous fugitives from slavery were born in this county; see transatlantic slave trade and Black Belt for context.

John Brown (c.1810 – 1876, not to be confused with the namesake abolitionist) is known for his 1855 memoir Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England.
Anthony W. Gardiner became the ninth President of Liberia
Dred Scott was subject to the Dredd Scott decision.
Nat Turner led the Nat Turner rebellion.

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