The force of a feather
Habeas corpus
Freed persons
Women slaves
Slaves, united states
Freedmen
Philanthropists
Slaves
Trials, litigation
Women, biography
African American women
Biography
"In the late 1980s, author DeEtta Demaratus stumbled across a story that wouldn't leave her alone. She had been intending to write an article about Biddy Mason, a former slave who, at the time of her death in 1891, had become a well-known philanthropist and one of the wealthiest African American wom…
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