HT5. The Impossible Secret of the Most Titan-Built Slave Woman Ever Bred in Charleston — 1843
In the spring of 1962, a graduate student named Ellen Whitfield opened a worn archival box in the reading room of the South Carolina Historical Society. Inside were the personal papers of a long-deceased Charleston physician, Dr. Nathaniel Pe ton (his surname sometimes misspelled “Peton” in catalog records). The collection had been donated after his … Read more