May Poole

AW writes that she discovered the identity of one of her great-great-great-great-grandmothers, May Poole , who lived and died as a slave, when she, AW , already a name in the public eye, was contacted...

First among the acknowledgements stands the name of AW 's forebear May Poole , who lived under slavery and reportedly died at the age of a hundred and twenty-five. The volume's strong element of...