Ellen C. Poe letter to Joseph Taylor
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.
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