Born a slave, Lucy was the oldest of the former slaves at Hermitage plantation, being nearly one hundred (Matthews).

Essie Collins Matthews, Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and Others: Character Studies Among the Old Slaves of the South, Fifty Years After: illustrated from photographs made by the author in the cabins and on the plantations (Columbus, Ohio, 1915)

Matthews, Essie Collins

English

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NW0237

North America--Alabama

"Aunt Lucy, Hermitage Plantation, Alabama, 1915", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed July 3, 2022, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1553