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“The oldest among them, a woman named Biddy, perhaps offered a word of assurance here and there.”
“That wealth would continue to grow after Mason’s death, seeding the fortunes of a Black family dynasty in Los Angeles.”
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“Rather, they were there to launch a historic bid for freedom.”
“From slavery to freedom.”
“______________________________ From The Boundless Biddy Mason: An Odyssey from Slavery to Freedom Across the American West by Kevin Waite.”
“His first book, West of Slavery , won the 2022 Wiley-Silver Prize and was shortlisted for three other awards, including the Lincoln Prize.”
“Hence Biddy’s long winter nights in prison as she awaited her family’s fate.”
“She had, after all, survived worse in nearly four decades of enslavement.”
“Smith’s case rested on an insidious fiction.”
“In fact, those long nights in the county jail marked the beginning of a new trail—a trail that finally forked from the path of slavery.”
“Robert Smith exploited all the advantages that his whiteness and wealth afforded yet was ultimately outmaneuvered by the Black women he claimed as property.”
“She was the property of a man named Robert Smith, who had transported Biddy and her daughters to California in 1851.”
“Biddy’s story doesn’t end in a Los Angeles prison cell or on the road back to bondage in Texas.”
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“Smith’s Black workforce grew to a total of fourteen people, making him the largest slaveholder anywhere on the Pacific Coast.”
“It was her resilience, her courage, her kindness, her faith.”
“In time she would become an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a religious leader, a matriarch, and a city-builder.”
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“The enslaved women and children who huddled together in the county jail in January 1856 became the freepeople who transformed Los Angeles in the decades thereafter.”
“January 1856 brought freezing temperatures and a new set of inmates to the jail: a group of women and children, now huddled together on the earthen floor of their prison home.”