Ellen C. Poe letter to Joseph Taylor
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Record Details
- Title
- Ellen C. Poe letter to Joseph Taylor
- Date
- 1851 May 15
- Creator
- Poe, Ellen C., b. c. 1811
- Notes
- Letter from Ellen Poe to her father in which she complains of a slave, Lizzy, whose housework is less than satisfactory and who is possibly carrying the child of a white man. Ellen plans to sell her and replace her with a darker-skinned slave.
- Names and Subjects
- Montgomery (Ala.)
- Poe, Ellen C., b. c. 1811
- Racially mixed children
- Slaves--Alabama
- Slaves--Social conditions
- Taylor, Joseph
- Women slaves
- Genre
- Correspondence
- Collection Title
- Joseph Taylor papers
- Collection Creator
- Taylor, Joseph and Taylor, Nancy
- ID
- 40
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2012-11-26 03:51:25
Technical Details
- Collection
- William L. Clements Library Image Bank
- Image Size
- 2560 x 3260
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 40
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-40/wcl000075
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"Ellen C. Poe letter to Joseph Taylor". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-40/wcl000075. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. July 14, 2025.