The Realms of Oblivion is a micro history that uses a Tennessee slave-owning family's plantation, Davies Manor, as a window into slavery's local dimensions. Through tracing the Zachariah Davis family's migration to Tennessee from Virginia in the late eighteenth-century, the book weaves together a multi-generational family narrative that showcases how the family's wealth and 'success' as farmers was predicated upon the brutal exploitation of enslaved Black people"--