Autograph Letter from Sybby Grant to Her Enslaver, John Hanson Thomas
Sybby Grant was the enslaved cook of the Thomas family, who lived at 1 West Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore. At the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, Dr. John Hanson Thomas, a Maryland legislator with Confederate sympathies, declared himself in favor of secession; as...
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Thomas Family, Baltimore, 1861 [1]; sale, Crocker Farm, Glencoe, Maryland, September 17 2011, lot 286; purchased by Ken Rosenberg, 2011; purchased by Michael Brown, Philadelphia, 2011; purchased by Walters Art Museum, 2016.[1] Letter was written by Sibby Grant, slave owned by John Hanson Thomas. The letter remained in the Thomas family until the family papers were consigned to Crocker Farm
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