Portrait of Anna Ella Carroll
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An undated photographic copy of a print portrait of Anna Ella Carroll, a politician, lobbyist, and pamphleteer from Maryland's Eastern Shore. Carroll came from a wealthy political family, with a great-grandfather who had signed the Declaration of Independence and father who served as a Governor of Maryland. Carroll criticized slavery in her pamphlets and served as an adviser to the Lincoln presidential cabinet during the Civil War.
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