From Sue Brawner to All at Home

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Title: From Sue Brawner to All at Home
Creator: Sue Brawner
Description: This letter of July 24, 1859 is from Sue Brawner in Linneus, Missouri to “all at home.” She describes a recent trip from Lexington, Missouri to Linneus via the city of Brunswick. Along the way she and her traveling companions visited relatives. Sue writes of staying with Tom, a relative in Linneus who owns several slaves: “They have a black girl as large as I am.”
Date: July 24, 1859
Local Subject: African Americans
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Women
People: Sue Brawner
Geographic Subject: Chariton County, Missouri
Lafayette County, Missouri
Linn County, Kansas
Lexington, Missouri
Object Type: Letter
Owning Organization: Battle of Lexington State Historic Site
Location: Brawner Family, 36-2002-003-001CC
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