Slavery. Conspiracy. Courage. Not many people know who Benjamin Hedrick is. Born in 1827, Hedrick attended the University of North Carolina. Graduating in 1851 with “first honor in the senior class,” he applied for a clerkship in the office of the Nautical Almanac in Cambridge, MA, upon the recommendation of then UNC President Swain. During his clerkship, Hedrick took advanced courses at Harvard until returning to his alma mater in January 1854 where he became professor of analytical and agricultural chemistry. Benjamin Hedrick’s Truth is the story of one man’s courage and fortitude to follow his unpopular beliefs on slavery and other political controversies of this era despite dire consequences to his life and the life of his family.