Tom Timeline and Summary

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• Tom shows aptitude as a blacksmith from an early age.
• He helps his father save up for the family's freedom.
• After George is sent to England, Tom and the rest of the family are sold to the Murrays.
• Tom is forced to blacksmith for the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
• Along with the rest of the family, he heads to Henning, Tennessee after the war and sets down roots.