Tower Hill

Tower Hill draws on an untapped family archive to reveal the history of a struggling slave plantation, mired by debt, volatile climate, disease and social isolation, whose local merchant family, the Blows, were driven to family turmoil and madness. The enslaved Blacks at Tower Hill endured by embracing evangelical Christianity and its promise of community and support. Nearby, the Great Dismal Swamp provided a haven for runaways. In 1831, Nat Turner’s rebellion killed more than fifty from Tower