Shawn Thrasher

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US First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler ran the president’s household almost invisibly in the 1840s:
Shawn Thrasher
We’re these slaves ??? I think the Tylers were from Virginia. Pausing to look... and they were. I imagine running a household full of slaves who can be punished with whipping or separation from their loved ones was slightly different from managing a household of English servants.
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
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