Their positions of comfort and authority stood in stark contrast to women held in bondage on the plantation, yet their choices were curtailed by patriarchal laws and customs of the time. Join us on Tuesday, March 23, at 1:00 p.m. EST for a live Q&A with Associate Curator Emilie Johnson, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts Diane Ehrenpreis, and Senior Historian and Donor Relations for Restoration & Collections Ann Lucas. We’ll discuss the lives of these women, the documents they left behind, and how historians use those sources to better understand the past.

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