Shirley Wood Merritt brought some records of the Green’s Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church to Sunday’s Charleston/Calhoun/Hiwassee Historical Society meeting at the church.
Photo by
Randall Higgins .
published Sunday, February 19th, 2012
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The Cherokee Removal didn't sweep up just Native Americans. Black people were taken, too. About 300 slaves left Charleston on the Trail of Tears along with thousands of Cherokees in 1838.
