“Flora is full of vim, with remarkably retentive memory.” Portrait of Flora Stewart, a 117-year-old former slave, November 5, 1867 A.W. Kimball, New Hampshire, photographer Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Manuscript Library

“Flora is full of vim, with remarkably retentive memory.”

Portrait of Flora Stewart, a 117-year-old former slave, November 5, 1867

A.W. Kimball, New Hampshire, photographer

Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Manuscript Library

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