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

Understand
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.