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/ h/t https://hachyderm.io/@estherschindler/117559039492338010