Sue Eakin
Professor, Deceased Person
1918 – 2009
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Who was Sue Eakin?
Myrtle Sue Lyles Eakin, known as Sue Eakin, was an American historian, a professor and journalist from Bunkie, Louisiana. She specialized in Louisiana history, particularly the Old South plantation system. Dr. Eakin is best known for documenting, annotating and reviving interest in the 1853 Twelve Years a Slave, a slave narrative by Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841.
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- Born
- Dec 7, 1918
Rapides Parish - Religion
- Episcopal Church
- United Methodist Church
- Profession
- Education
- Louisiana State University
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Lecompte High School
- Died
- Sep 17, 2009
Bunkie
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on July 23, 2013
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