Eleanor Herman
speaker
363 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Eleanor Herman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, when they were 21, there was no freedom.
Now, he did not put them in the fields or in the very arduous tasks.
He taught them how to be carpenters so they had skills.
They could earn money.
Some of them, you know, served in the in the house.
But, you know, at a certain point, they all just left without his permission.
They just they just left.
Two of them could pass as white.
And they changed their names and disappeared.
Wow.
She was.
There was a legal thing that they did where she was just sort of freed.
And that's what happened to her.
But, you know, he spent his last few years entertaining lavishly and he did not have the money.
And he knew as he was getting older that when he died, hundreds of his enslaved people were going to be
put on the auction block and sold off and families split up.
And that's exactly what happened to them.
Instead of trying to free them, which wasn't always easy at the time legally, he just figured out they'd be sold and then the money would go to his daughters, pay off his debts.
Wow.
There were tests done.
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