Texts: Marie Le Breton, Marie-Hélène Frémaux


  For some people, life is a perpetual invention, and G. A. Morgan was one of them. The son of former African-American slaves from Kentucky, he left his home and family at age 14, settling in Cleveland, Ohio in 1901. He began work as a sewing-machine repairman and eventually opened his own shop.

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