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Aunt Clara Brown: A Black Woman Pioneer
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TitleAunt Clara Brown: A Black Woman Pioneer
AbstractBiographical article about Clara Brown (1800-1885), a black slave born in Virginia, moved to Kentucky in 1818, freed in 1857 and moving to Saint Louis and then to Leavenworth, Kansas, and Colorado. Article describes her efforts to locate her family members sold as slaves and her part "in the exodus of 1877 which brought thousands of blacks from the Deep South to Kansas," with photo.
AuthorBarbara A. Egypt
DateSpring//1996
SourceJackson County Historical Society Journal
Locationq977.841 J14j
Volume36
Number1
Page6-7
Local SubjectBrown, Clara
African Americans
Exodusters
IllustrationsNo
Item TypeMagazine Article
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Item ID107825
CONTENTdm number15018
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