FOR THE BIGGEST superstars of their times, their origins were inauspicious. Richard Potter and Sarah Bernhardt saw little of their fathers; nor was illegitimacy the only social disadvantage of their births. Slave-takers on the Guinea coast captured Potter’s mother as a young girl. Slave-traders sold her on a Boston wharf. Eventually freed from slavery, “Black […]
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