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What we found to be true: Enslaved people actively participated in the informal and formal market economy. So much so that Elizabeth Keckley a skilled seamstress whose dresses for Abraham Lincoln's wife are displayed in Smithsonian museums, supported her enslaver's entire family and still earned enough to pay for her freedom.
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What we found to be true: Enslaved people actively participated in the informal and formal market economy. So much so that Elizabeth Keckley a skilled seamstress whose dresses for Abraham Lincoln's wife are displayed in Smithsonian museums, supported her enslaver's entire family and still earned enough to pay for her freedom.