Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was born in 1818 in Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia. Her biological father was a white plantation owner, Colonel A. Burwell. Her mother, Agnes, was married to George Hobbs, who lived 100 miles away on another plantation.
“I was my mother's only child, which made her love for me all the stronger. I did not know much of my
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