Egerton, Douglas R. books

The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

War’s End, Activism’s Beginning At the age of fourteen, Dolly was put up for sale at auction. In later years, her son William told of Dolly boldly marching up to a man she hoped was kind and asking him to buy her, saying she “liked his looks.” The prospective buyer was thirty-four-year-old Andrew...