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6. Oh, okay, my bad.

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 31, 2021, 04:56 PM

Jan 2021

It must have been some other prominent Southern white lady. Elizabeth Keckley had a little sewing business in Washington, DC during the Civil War era, and one of these ladies told her about preparations for an upcoming Civil War to keep their slave system going. I should have gone back and checked first.

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