Alexander Archer

Washington University students and faculty have lifted the veil from its co-founder William Greenleaf Eliot, who for years was known as an abolitionist. Although he held anti-slavery views, he vehemently opposed abolitionism and did not see a future for freed Black people in America.

For the past 30 years, Keith Winstead has been tracing the many generations of his family history.“When I first started genealogy, I thought I’d be lucky…