The Boundless Biddy Mason An Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom Across the American West
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
13.10.2026
Verlag
University Of California PressSeitenzahl
456 (Printausgabe)
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780520394735
How Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles.
Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest forced migrations in American history-three thousand miles on foot from Georgia to California. She and her daughters labored in slavery in the "free" state of California for five years before launching a landmark emancipation suit in 1856. Free at last, she defied barriers of race and gender, rising to prominence as a healer, philanthropist, church builder, and real estate entrepreneur whose commercial properties stood at what became known as the "Wall Street of the West." By the time of her death in 1891, she had laid the foundations of Black Los Angeles and ranked among the richest women of color in the United States.
In this first book-length biography of Mason, prizewinning historian Kevin Waite uncovers an extraordinary story of survival that carries readers from the cotton South to metropolitan California, and through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the dawn of Jim Crow. By retracing Mason's odyssey, he illuminates both the continental sweep of American slavery and the fragile, hard-won possibilities of freedom in the West.
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