The Desperation to Save Slavery

"I was trying to imagine like how to co-resist and create a haven," she says. "The treatment and abuse that these people endured had me ... desperate to save them" In 1852, slaves in Texas could not be freed by their owners; they would have to leave the state. A lot of enslaved women were involved in negotiating wet nurses' dowries.

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