The woman known as Matilda may seem unremarkable; however, she was anything but! As a housebound slave, she taught herself how to read, and she would inspire countless more runaway slaves to take legal action.
Author: Sean E. Andres
Sean E. Andres is a marketer, writer, and former educator. He has a B.S. in Secondary English/Language Arts Education with a focus on women writers during the Civil War and M.S. in Marketing with a focus on diversity marketing from applied feminist and race theory. He co-founded Queens of Queen City with Chelsie J. Hoskins in 2017. Sean currently serves on the boards for Urbanist Media and Cincinnati Observatory. He loves to be outdoors among the trees and woodland critters when he’s not glued to the computer – researching, writing, and working.