
Elizabeth Keckley
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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I'll Sign This, but I'm Thinking My Money Just Lost Straight Now
Lizzie laughed in tears when her husband refused to sign the papers. She was so distraught by this that she laughed in tears. The society ladies had been talking about lizzie because their husbands had signed these papers, and the gossip train started. And they felt ashamed that lizzie, who, after all, is part of the family, just laughed. But it doesn't really matter, because fate intervened in the shape of client, a missus lebourgeois.
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