
Elizabeth Keckley
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
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Aggie's Secret Weapon - The Secret Weapon of the Slave Market
A aggie taught lizzie to sew from about the age of three. She was trying to give her daughter some survival skills. The more versatile, the more multi tasking a person you are, the more valuable and the least likely to be sold. A thomas jefferson had just opened a rival university to the one where mister burl worked. It's now the university of virginia,. by the way, still exists. An enrolment just dropped. And they really never saw each other again. Very sad.
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