Welcome to the website of author and journalist Bill Sizemore.
Bill Sizemore spent eight years researching and writing the story of his slaveowning Virginia ancestors, their slaves, and the descendants of those slaves.
The author's great-great-great-grandfather was a small-time tobacco farmer in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. In contrast to large planters with hundreds of slaves, he was far more typical: He owned fewer than 20. The book traces the lives of generations of African-Americans who descended from his slaves, up to the present day.
Recent Blog Posts
For Ralph Northam and Virginia, this could be a teachable moment
Here’s an op-ed I wrote for my old paper, The Virginian-Pilot, about Virginia’s current unpleasantness: I feel Gov. Ralph Northam’s pain. As a fellow…
Book talks galore for Black History Month
February is Black History Month, and that means I’ll have a flurry of events around the state talking up my book Uncle George and Me:…
New! “Uncle George” as an e-book
Here’s the latest from our Department of Shameless Self-Promotion: My new book Uncle George and Me: Two Southern Families Confront a Shared Legacy of Slavery is now…