Bending the Arc of History
Terrence Franklin |
TEDxDavenport
• June 2022
By profession, Terrence Franklin had been a trusts and estates litigator, handling court disputes about wills for twenty-five years, when he discovered the story of the will that set his ancestors free from slavery in 1846, and how that document was challenged in court. Uncovering the story of the will, and his fourth great-grandmother Lucy’s role in helping to get the will made and enforced, taught Franklin a lesson – that we all have a role to play in shaping history.