With Open Hands: A Story about Biddy Mason
Author:
Jeri Chase Ferris
Illustrator:
Ralph L. Ramstad
Publication:
1999 by Carolrhoda Books, Inc
Genre:
Biography, Non-fiction
Series:
Carolrhoda Creative Minds Biography
Series Number: blac
Pages:
64
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Recounts the life of Biddy Mason, a slave who found freedom in California in 1856, who practiced the philosophy of sharing as she nursed the sick, delivered babies, and started many philanthropic projects after becoming a wealthy landowner in Los Angeles.
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