“Aunt Rachel’s Story: A True Story, Repeated Word for Word to Mark Twain,” by Lauren Young

Lauren’s presentation will be part song, part dramatic reading, and part sermon, based around the story of “Aunt Rachel” by Mark Twain, as printed by The Atlantic Monthly in November of 1874. Lauren first heard this story in Ken Burns’ documentary about Twain on PBS. The subject is about the one of the tragedies that enslaved families feared more than any other.

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