He overpowered her but the sight of blood, she begged him to stop. She writes “one morning he went to the wood-pile, took an oak broom, cut the handle off and with the heavy handle attempted to conquer me. One such beating was so severe she was unable to get out of bed for 5 days. Many uninformed people believe that the only pain inflicted on slaves was working from “can’t to can’t”, so dark in the morning that you can’t see until night when it was so dark you can’t see.” There was much more, there was limited food, clothing and the constant threat of physical beatings.Įlizabeth describes 2 beatings in particular, administered with encouragement from Mrs. He asked for forgiveness and afterwards was an altered man. She also writes that her suffering had subdued his hard heart. Bingham cried and declared that it would be a sin to beat her anymore. Burwell and a neighbor William Bingham.Īfter one of her beatings, she writes that Rev. Burwell as morbidly sensitive and with a cold jealous hearted result, she was often beat by Rev. Burwell as kind and good natured but Mrs. In addition, she was scolded ad regarded with distrust. Elizabeth was worked extremely hard doing the work that normally would be cone by 3 servants.
Slaves were not treated as property and not as humans. They moved to Hillsborough when Elizabeth was 17.
She was lent to his oldest son Robert when he married Margaret Anna Robertson.
Elizabeth Keckley – Confidant of Mary Todd LincolnĮlizabeth Hobbs (or Hobbes in some places) was born into slavery in Dinwiddie County Virginia in the household of Colonel Armistead Burwell.
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