I have 2
ideas for my midterm paper. The first is to focus on Elizabeth Keckley. Keckley
is a lesser known American civil rights activist with a very full life. Born a
slave in 1918 in Virginia, she lived in slavery for over 30 years before
gaining her freedom. Mrs. Keckley moved to the DC area and became a very
successful seamstress with a clientele that included the wife of general Robert
E. Lee. Later in life she became the seamstress as well as confidant and advisor
to Mary Todd Lincoln while Lincoln was first lady. Keckley is a very
interesting individual to wrote about, though the other direction I could go
with this midterm is to analyze a few of the slave narratives from the WPA, the
Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 in particular. This is in the form of an audio book
on iTunes, which would make it easy to access. As of now, I quite torn and am
not sure which direction I’ll go.
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