What genealogists should know about the laws of slavery
Biddy Mason and Hannah Smiley Embers were enslaved when they and their children helped settle Utah and California in the 1840s and 1850s. They gained their freedom in a dramatic court battle in Los Angeles. Biddy Mason and Hannah Smiley Embers were among the hundreds of enslaved Black pioneers of the American West.
This is a fascinating video from RootsTech.
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