Archy Lee was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1840 and very little is known about his childhood. Lee was owned by Charles Stovall, and in 1857, Stovall moved to California from Missouri, taking Lee with him. Lee's concern grew about having to return to a slave state, so he escaped from Stovall and hid […]
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