A Slave in Windsor: Nancy Toney's Life & Legacy Wednesday, Feb 1, 2017
On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 7 PM, join Loomis Chaffee School Archivist Karen Parsons at Windsor Historical Society for a program about Windsor’s Nancy Toney, a woman of African descent owned by three Connecticut families over the course of her 83 years. She lived through the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and passed away in 1857 shortly before the Civil War. Seldom portrayed in art or photographs, enslaved household members like Nancy Toney were supposed to be invisible whenever guests came calling, yet they worked in kitchens, washed and ironed and spun, emptied chamber pots, an |
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