lens through which we can understand not only morris but the challenges that america faced overall in 1792. it is likely that we still face them today, this question of what's the richest americans, are there limits on what the richest americans can or should be able to do. it's morris's life in his and particularly help show how americans have thought about the question. hollywood cemetery and is 135 acres are located near the oregon hill neighborhood of richmond, named for the holly trees found on the property, it was opened in 1847 and its final resting place of us senator and confederate president jefferson davis as well as us presidents james monroe and john tyler. it's the second most visited cemetery in the country after

arlington national cemetery. we continue our feature on richmond with a visit to black swan books, the local antiquarian book store. >> this is an example of a book that is not particularly valuable but is absolutely beautiful. and i love being able to sell books like this. we sometimes think oh, rare books. a rare bookshop, antiquarian. that sounds peculiar. that's not for me and i want the bookshop in business to be for everybody.i want people to come in and say oh my god, look at that gorgeous book and opened it up and find that it's $25 and they could probably afford it if they really want it and it's not $2000. that's a nice thing, i think. i wanted to go to library school and be a rare books librarian. and i was not well received.

anyway, i got talked out of it. and i went to law school, i did that. i went into the ministry, i did that. nothing was really going to work out for me so 20 years ago, i bought the inventory of a bookshop that was going out of business. and it turned out not to be very good inventory but i didn't pay very much . and we after a year, put it all in storage. my son is now running the shop and i painted the bookcases in a little storefront in the fan district here area and we put all the books up on the bookcases and put a sign up and all of a sudden we were book dealers. and that was in 96 or seven so it's been almost 20 years. black swan books is named after william byrd who founded richmond way back in

the 1720s, i think? and he was a book collector. he was an interesting guy, he was sort of like a jeffersoniantype and he went over to london . and he was a bit of a rascal because not only was he interested in buying books in london which he did and sent them back to virginia but he was also very interested in women. and not only did pick up books, he picked up women and one of them referred to him as the black swan. and it just seemed like that was a cool name for a rare bookshop in the city of richmond. i go out all the time. i feel sometimes like i don't have time to catalog my inventory because i'm busy going out and buying more of it but i find all kinds of interesting things. these are all items that i've recently acquired. this book is by mrs. ah stern

, a highway in the wilderness. i looked at that thing and i thought, i never heard mrs. ah stearns and i very few people have. a highway in the wilderness sound like john the baptist and it sounds like this is a 19th century religious tract that might be kind of interesting but probably isn't but i look at it and it turns out mrs. stearns highway in the wilderness was her calling to teach an african-american school in morristown morristown tennessee. in chattanooga. in the 1870s. that makes it really interesting because it's just full of what life was like at this school for quote, colored people in tennessee in the 1870s. so this, i can't find that

anyone has this book. that's always interesting for a book dealer is if nobody is selling it, or alternatively, you can't find it being held by anyinstitution , that's a book you can feel fairly confident given its subject matter that somebody's going to want. so i'm suddenly very interested in mrs. stearns and want to catalog this book carefully. and thoughtfully and in a way that i can market it to someone who's really interested in african-american history. so this is to me a wonderful little find. this doesn't look like anything at all, i mean it looks like a very nondescript religious pamphlet. to me, it's a treasure hunt. i crawl around someone basement open boxes that have

been sitting there were ages. i don't know what's in there and often it's just a lot of junk but once in a while it's something really interesting. at an estate, i did on this estate, some other dealers did on it as well. i got a bunch of old books and i brought them back here and i started going through them and i opened up this one bookand in the back there was this folded piece of paper . and it turned out to be a broadside which is the printed flat piece of paper. and it said to the non-slaveholding staff, and i look at that thing and i thought, that looks interesting. and i dug around to try to figure it out and it turned out it was printed up by a man named lysander spooner. and spooner was an abolitionist in the middle of the 19th century. and he was great friends with john brown is known for his rage at harper's ferry and

subsequent pain . and john brown said to spooner, don't issue this broadside to the non-slaveholding south because basically it was saying to people, go ahead and revolt. take arms. revolt against the slaveholders. he said don't do that, it tips our hand too much so they didn't print very many of these broadsides. it was of great importance in the history of the abolitionist movement leading up to the civil war. and i sold her for a lot of money. and it was stuck in the back of the book and no one saw it. people often don't because this paper is stuck in there. so i look for stuff that's inside books, not just books. there's interesting turn up.

this is a whole stack of things, it's always interesting to get several items about a single person. this i bought from one family , it's about an ancestor of theirs who was a dentist in west virginia but he trained for his dental education in maryland and in baltimore and it's all original stuff. this manuscript, it's diaries. it's, i guess on the continental guards river excursion in 1884 duck in there. there's a little silhouette of him, his visiting cards and advertising cards and most importantly, journal entries that tell us about what this man was doing in his daily life in the 1870s

in baltimore and later on, in west virginia. so it takes a lot of cataloguing things like this because you got to sit down and read it. look at that pretty graphic title to this commonplace book that he had.or copybook. and people kept those things. they wrote out poems and all kinds of items, things stuck in the books like this are so interesting. here's an envelope, there's a picture of george washington printed on it. it says be aware of traders and it says the war for the union so here's an envelope that was printed, a patriotic envelope during the civil war. just stuck in this and in this commonplace book. people visit the store all the time and they say, do you

appraise books? what they really mean is do i buy books often? i do appraise them but that's a written appraisal or if they want to know the value of something. what the really, generally want is to sell books. and you know, they say the internet has created, everyone's an expert and they're not. but yet i had some guy, bless his heart, he was a very simple man out in the country. he showed up one saturday the pickup truck full of books. every book had a little slip of paper with the value of the book that he saw online. and he had things like a really, really beat up copy of the decline and fall of the roman empire from the 1930s and he had a value in their $10,000. and he had seen the first edition online for $10,000 or

something and he thought he had a gold mine. people just don't understand. you've got to compare the right slip to the right book. i was at the boston fair this past fall and was talking to a fellow member of the book trade and he, i think was kind of grumpy. and he said in 10 years, i give the trade can years and it's all over. nobody's going to buy anything else. and i looked at him and i looked at the young dealers who were wandering around selling beautiful, well catalogued, interesting material and they are maybe in their 30s and i thought, they don't think it's going to be over in 10 years and it's not going to the. but it is changing.

some of the books that use to be pretty valuable and sell pretty easily are selling for a lot less. the internet has driven a lot of prices down. and people are seeing more and more visual things, posters. art. stuff like things we got there, these photographs of john by jock low. like that kind of visual stimulus these days but the sale of books is not going away. i see a lot of really interesting young people coming up in the trade. they may do it a little differently from the way things were done 20, 30, 40 years ago but they're doing it and they're doing very well and as long as they're successful.

>> continuing our look at richmond, this is the city's famed monument avenue with statues honoring confederate war heroes including robert e lee, thomas stonewall jackson and jefferson davis. in 1996, african-american tennis star and richmond native arthur ash added to the collection. conversations about monument avenue in which statues should be added, changed or removed continued today. next, we speak with kristen green on the fight to desegregate prince edward county virginia. >> i think a lot of people believed that that's what i thought of it as. and i also think that people believed that as soon as the decision was handed to the court in 1954 that it was implemented and also it's not really. so while i am working on the research for the book is that