The Midwife Who Walked to Freedom and Built a Legacy
Biddy Mason walked nearly 1,700 miles behind a wagon train from Mississippi to California in 1851 — still enslaved, herding cattle the entire way. When...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 112:1-10.
Biddy Mason walked nearly 1,700 miles behind a wagon train from Mississippi to California in 1851 — still enslaved, herding cattle the entire way. When she petitioned a Los Angeles court for her freedom in 1856, she stood before the judge unable to testify as a Black woman, yet won her case through sheer documented truth. What Biddy Mason did next reads like Psalm 112 made flesh.…
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