Eight Americans are heading to London this week to meet with local history experts to examine and confront the life of a man who connects them to a painful past.

They are the Descendants of Brattonsville, both Black and white descendants of a South Carolina plantation, coming to London to explore the Canadian life of James Rufus Bratton, who fled the U.S. in 1872 to escape prosecution for leading the lynching of a Black leader.

With the assistance from both the London and Middlesex Historical Society and the London Black Heritage Council, the group will tour historical sites, including a new exhibit at Museum London called Black Lives Lived Here: London Family Photos 1910s-1960s, as well as Fanshawe Pioneer Museum, Woodland Cemetery and places connected to the fugitive doctor.

They also

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