Ann mariah cook biography of abraham lincoln
Ann mariah cook biography of abraham lincoln book.
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If you know African American history at all, you’ve heard of Harriet Tubman, Soujourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, and Rosa Parks.
Ann mariah cook biography of abraham lincoln
But there was another black woman who deserves her place in African American history, yet you probably never heard of her.
Her name was Mariah Vance, and she was housekeeper, cook, and confidant to Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in their Springfield, Illinois home during the ten years (1850-1860) in which Abe rose from country lawyer to President of the United States.
Mrs. Vance, her husband Henry, and their children were a black family that virtually lived in tandem with the Lincolns who would become the white First Family of the United States, yet a cabal of Lincoln scholars first denied her existence, then that she knew or worked for the Lincolns.
When documents proved them wrong, they then refused to believe what she recalled of her years of service to the Lincolns and discouraged publicatio