STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Elizabeth Meaders has spent a lifetime putting together a collection of about 20,000 artifacts tracing the African American experience from slavery to present day. At 90-years-old, she is ready to auction all of it.
Meaders said the collection is “an American history project fueled by a labor of love.”
Meaders, who can trace her family to the last enslaved person freed on Staten Island in the 1800s, has self-funded this collection, which will be sold in its entirety at Guernsey’s auction house on Tuesday. The former teacher even mortgaged her home so she could underwrite the collection.
The collection covers 15 subject areas,
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