(08-27-2018, 11:27 AM)Rsmyth Wrote: You are absolutely right Kate. Due to Laurie's recent revelation the title of the thread should have been "How Laurie prolonged the African slave trade." lol
Now wait a minute! I inherited those piano keys; I wasn't the one who purchased them in 1890. That would have been my great-grandfather, Joseph Eli Huntt, whom you have all heard about housing David Herold overnight on April 13, 1865, as well as being mentioned in Smoot's book as being prepared to supply horses to the conspirators during the kidnap plot. And, while he was not a slaveholder, his father was...