This is my great-grandmother, Christina Levant Platt, 100 years old, working in …
This is my great-grandmother, Christina Levant Platt, 100 years old, working in her garden. She was born a slave. Her “owner,” the wife of the family, secretly taught her to read and write, which was very dangerous at the time. She learned to read the Bible. Christina had 11 children, but lost two of them. […]







