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Biography

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

    Labor

    Land

    Slavery

    Women's Voices

    Slavery & Abolition, 1800-1860

Portrait of Bridget "Biddy" Mason

The winner of numerous literary awards in 2020 and 2021, the book Biddy Mason Speaks Up is a new installment in the “Fighting For Justice” Series of HeyDey Books. In this video, Ranger Master of the National Park Service reads the book aloud outdoors in the Santa Monica Mountains, where Biddy Mason spent a brief period before gaining her freedom.

If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance even as it receives.

Bridget "Biddy" Mason

Photograph of Louis Manigault, Jr. in a field
Present to Past

Land as Legacy

    Labor

A photograph of an African American woman washing laundry outdoors in a yard. Clothes hand behind her on a line.
Historic Event

Atlanta Washerwomen Strike

    Labor

Photograph of African American children dressed in school uniforms and seated outside in three rows of benches.
Biography

Edmonia Highgate

    Women's Voices