Marie Elizabeth Venning: Tracing Her Footsteps to tell Her Story
June 19, 2020
. A tintype was donated to Fort Hill in 1938, along with a typewritten letter by Margaret Calhoun, the great-granddaughter of Thomas and Anna Clemson. The tintype was of Marie, a formerly enslaved woman, who was holding baby Floride Isabela Lee, the Clemsons’ granddaughter. The letter provides few facts, while hinting at others; however, the […]
