#OnThisDay in #history - in 1815, Anna Ella Carroll was born in Maryland #USA - as a child, she was educated by her father to act as his aide, which provided her a political and legal curriculum (her father was later governor of the state).
Anna wrote and published pamphlets for political candidates and causes. In 1860, with Abraham Lincoln's election, she freed all the people her family had enslaved, and later worked as a wartime advisor to the president. #OTD#histodons@histodons
