Aunt Minte, 1867

In 1867, Rev. Henry J. Morton captured the image of a woman surrounded by laundry in a community sketch of St. Augustine. Known as Aunty Minte, she was a cook at a local boarding house and lived near the corner of St. Francis and Charlotte Streets. Her son Thomas is the subject of a piece by Earnest A. Meyer. We know little else, other than this former slave and her son live on in a sketchbook of St. Augustine history.