The records behind the story: the censuses and death certificate that lock five generations together, and seventy pages of the Edgefield and Aiken press — the newspapers that documented, week by week, the world Dave's family survived and finally left.
Every newspaper page here is evidence in two directions at once. Read for the family, the pages hold the market prices, storms, court sessions, and daily life of the counties where the Joneses farmed. Read for the system, the same pages show how organized racial terror was reported, justified, and normalized — which is precisely why the generations who fled carried silence instead of stories. Click any card to page through the original scans. Three of the era’s defining articles — the 1876 Ellenton coverage, the 1898 “Lynch Law in Edgefield” report, and the 1925 Lowman trial — are fully transcribed on The Terror at Home, so the small newsprint can be read word for word.