The Burwell School Historic Site in Hillsborough recently announced a name change: it’s now the Elizabeth Keckly Center at the Burwell School, in honor of Elizabeth Hobbs Keckly – who was enslaved there as a young woman before buying her freedom and becoming a nationally renowned dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln during the Civil War.

Visit BurwellSchool.org for more on the name change and their ongoing programming.

Aaron spoke with board member Ebony Freeland Bryant and site director Elizabeth Hays.

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