Growing up in South Carolina, Baynard Woods loved country music, NASCAR, barbecue, and the confederacyor the myth of it that had been passed down to him. He gradually came to break away from the culture he'd been raised in,leaving the state after several scrapes with the law. He prided himself on being a white ally with progressive values. But his world was turned upside down when he discovered the reality of his family's history as terrorists, murderers, and slavers, who collectively held hundreds of Black people in bondage over the course of two centuries. INHERITANCE is his journey to grapple with the country's oldest wound and its effects on his own life.As he re-examines his past, the stories in which he had once been the hero take on a different, whiter, hue. When Woods was arrested for smoking weed, he'd felt like a victim of the drug war. But when the cops asked where he got the grass, he said: ';From a Black guy.' When he got in trouble, his grandpa's white good-ole-boy networ
