Fact Check: There Is NO Record Of Evelyn Duval, The Louisiana Plantation Owner's Wife Who Eloped With a Runaway Slave in 1847
Did Evelyn Duval, the wife of a Louisiana plantation owner, elope with a runaway slave in 1847? No, that's not true: This story is full of precise details, which lend an air of authenticity - but the details do not match up with historic sources. Both the image of the couple and the story spontaneously surfaced on social media in…