by David F Walker | Dec 1, 2013 | Features, News, What's Hot
Watching director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, it was impossible to keep my mind from wandering to Lelia Moore. Lelia was born a slave some time in the mid-1830s, and by 1850 she was the property of John Douglas Hancock. In 1855, while she was still in her late...