In 1860, Keckly left her alcoholic husband James and moved to Washington, D.C. Louis, her sewing supported the entire household, seventeen people total. Keckly (also spelled Keckley) records that, in St. It is presumed that Alexander Kirkland, another prominent Hillsborough resident, was his father. He joined a Union regiment in 1861 and died in action. Louis in 1855, he assumed the name of Kirkland. In the book she does not indicate his identity, but after she purchased her freedom and that of her son George in St. She gives an account of an abusive “seduction” by another neighbor, resulting in birth of a son. Her memoir records brutal treatment at the hands of Burwell and a local schoolmaster, William Bingham. Burwell loaned Elizabeth to his son Robert who in 1835 accepted the Presbyterian Church pastorate in Hillsborough.
Late in life, her mother told her that Burwell was her real father. The man she knew as her father was enslaved by a different enslaver. 1820-1907) was born enslaved in the Virginia household of Armistead Burwell around 1820. By Ansley Wegner, Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, 2013 Revised by Jared Dease, Government and Heritage Library, January 2023Įlizabeth Hobbs Keckly (ca.
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