“The most hated woman in Virginia”
wtvr has a profile of Elizabeth Van Lew, calling her “the most hated woman in America”: Elizabeth Van Lew is born in 1818 into a wealthy slave owning household. She was a woman of means living in the finest mansion on Church Hill, but the Quaker educated Van Lew comes to abhor the institution – […]
wtvr has a profile of Elizabeth Van Lew, calling her “the most hated woman in America”: Elizabeth Van Lew is born in 1818 into a wealthy slave owning household. She was a woman of means living in the finest mansion on Church Hill, but the Quaker educated Van Lew comes to abhor the institution – […]
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