Anne Alger Craven, Witness to Sumter, in Her Words
by
Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
It is November, 1860. Anne Alger Craven leaves her home at Abingdon Square, Manhattan, prepared to enter the lion’s den that is Charleston, South Carolina; Anne is an abolitionist. In Charleston the penalty for supporting emancipation is execution.
But Anne is...