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Feb
5
2010

Celebrating Black History Month: Joel Lane and His Enslaved People

The JLMH’s Education Chairman, Florence Mitchell, has just finished a compilation of the information we have on Joel Lane’s enslaved people. To read the material, click here Joel Lane and His Enslaved People or click on the history tab at the top of any page in this site, click on Joel Lane, and then click on the tab reading “Joel Lane and His Enslaved People.”


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Thank you so much for leading us on a guided tour of the Joel Lane House! I had no idea that the kitchen was separate from the main house, and how different the two are. I had always assumed that the most dangerous job for a slave was in the fields, but your expertise showed me that the kitchen (because of the heat and potential for fire) was actually the most dangerous for a slave woman…

Maggie