Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- Sources

Overview The Leon Washington Condol papers consist of photographs, family documents, and news clippings. Also included in the collection, and of particular interest, is a rare, autographed copy of Sketches Old and New (1875), a collection of Mark Twain stories. One of the sketches in the volume is said to be based on the life of Leon Condol's great-grandmother, a woman who endured slavery, family separation and reunion, and who eventually worked for Mark Twain at Quarry...