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Imagine walking one thousand seven hundred miles, enslave barefoot with three kids, only to turn that pain into power. Meet Bridget Biddy Mason, born a slave in Mississippi, in eighteen eighties, her owner Robert Smith, dragged her on a brutal one thousand seven hundred mile trek to Utah. In eighteen forty eight, herding cattle, cooking midwifing, all while caring for her daughters. In eighteen fifty one, Smith made a fatal mistake. He moved to California, a free state. Biddy saw her chance. You won't hear freedom in eighteen fifty six for an one, she didn't stop there. This. By eighteen sixty six, she'd saved enough as a nurse to buy land decades before black folks could even dream of owning property In parts of America, Biddy became a real estate mogul, selling land to black families shut out by redlining, she founded the first African Methodist Episcopal Church. In eighteen seventy - two, nurse the sick fed the homeless after flux and comforted prisoners by her death. And eighteen ninety one, she was one of LA's wealthiest landowners. Yet her stories barely told. Biddy Mason built a. She deserves more than a park share, believe inspire blacks be.
Post:: Imagine walking one thousand seven hundred miles, enslave barefoot with three kids, only to turn that pain into power. Meet Bridget Biddy Mason, born a slave in Mississippi, in eighteen eighties, her owner Robert Smith, dragged her… #TannerScott #walkingthousand #thousandseven #sevenhundred
