American Immigrant Stories on Instagram: "She slept on an iron cot surrounded by rats. She watched her little brother die in a poorhouse so horrific they investigated it for cannibalism. She couldn’t read her own name at fourteen years old. And she became the first woman ever honored at the National Cathedral. Annie Sullivan’s parents fled the Great Famine in Ireland, only to face crushing poverty in America. By age ten, both parents were gone and Annie was abandoned at the Tewksbury Almshouse —

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