The Freed Woman Who Built Los Angeles
Biddy Mason walked into a Los Angeles courtroom in 1856 as property. She walked out free. But what she did with that freedom reads like...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 112:1-10.
Biddy Mason walked into a Los Angeles courtroom in 1856 as property. She walked out free. But what she did with that freedom reads like Psalm 112 made flesh. Born into slavery in Mississippi, Biddy had been forced to walk nearly two thousand miles behind her master's wagon train to California. After winning her freedom, she worked as a nurse and midwife, saving every dollar she could.…
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