Nobody’s Boy by Jennifer Fleischner gateway to pride civil rights activists

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Nobody’s Boy by Jennifer Fleischner gateway to pride civil rights activistsA work of historical fiction, Nobodys Boy is loosely based on the real life story of a slave named George Kirkland. Georges owner, Hugh Garland, the lawyer for Mrs. Emerson in the Dred Scott case, brought him to St. Louis at the age of about five. Georges mother, Elizabeth Keckly (dressmaker for and confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln), bought his freedom and, in about 1860, sent him to college in Ohio. The early 1850s was an important time in Missouria

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