Jints and her enslaver´s baby Hannah E. Stockley

Item

Type
Photograph
Title
Jints and her enslaver´s baby Hannah E. Stockley
Rationale
Enslaved people were often the primary caretakers of their enslavers' children. This is the only known photograph of an enslaved person in Delaware.
Description
Hannah E. Stockley with her grandfather’s slave, Jints, in the early 1860s. Stockley’s grandfather, James Anderson, owned 15 slaves on his farm in Sussex County. This is the only known photograph of an enslaved person in Delaware.

After the war, Jints disappears from history. Hannah and her parents, Charles and Ellen Shockley, lived with James; Charles became Governor in 1883. Hannah later married and died in 1920.
Date
1860s
1800s
Place
Sussex County, Delaware
Rights
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