But the most curious thing about the letter was the total absence of a signature. It proved, however, that she had written her name on a card, and put it under the shelter of a smaller envelope ...
"Whippersnappers," Maya Freelon's moving new exhibition at Historic Stagville, reimagines the lives of enslaved children.
Dating from 1784, the letter was written after America had achieved independence, but at a time when it wasn't clear whether ...