w.w wilbur, who was a slave seller from 1806.this is an advertisement. michael: this is an advertisement, absolutely. ♪ well i'm working my way ♪ rasool: holding those chains was heavy, but pastor waters reminds me that to truly appreciate liberation, i have to grasp the reality of bondage. sam collins, a local historian, takes me somewhere i've always dreaded, the final destination for the enslaved. sam: we are at the varner-hogg plantation in west columbia, texas. in 1834, columbus patton turned it into a producing agricultural location with 40 to 60 enslaved people. rasool: for the slave owner, what was life like here? sam: well, patton was very successful with regards to running the plantation. they produced a lot of sugar, and the enslaved people were the ones producing the wealth. they were not receiving the benefit, but they were doing the work and producing the wealth of this county. and for the enslaver, their wealth was in ownership of the people and in what the people produced. so it is grand, but it's not great. (somb