Enslavers Portrait by William Brown Cooper [Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons] Adelicia Acklen ". . .became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin, who was a Slave trader." Websites Richards, Leonard L.. Who Freed the Slaves? The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Adelicia Acklen – Wikipedia < Previous |
